CVE-2004-2044
PHP-Nuke 7.3, and other products that use the PHP-Nuke codebase such as the Nuke Cops betaNC PHP-Nuke Bundle, OSCNukeLite 3.1, and…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 11.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
PHP-Nuke 7.3, and other products that use the PHP-Nuke codebase such as the Nuke Cops betaNC PHP-Nuke Bundle, OSCNukeLite 3.1, and OSC2Nuke 7x do not properly use the eregi() PHP function with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to identify the calling script, which allows remote attackers to directly access scripts, obtain path information via a PHP error message, and possibly gain access, as demonstrated using an HTTP request that contains the "admin.php" string.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- PHP-Nuke 5.x/6.x/7.x - Direct Script Access Security Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24166webapps, phppublished 1 Jun 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.0% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- 20040601 [Squid 2004-betaNC-001] Inadequate Security Checking in NukeCops betaNC Bundle (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- nukecops-ergei-path-disclosure(16298) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20040601 [Squid 2004-OSC2Nuke-001] Inadequate Security Checking in OSC2Nuke (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- phpnuke-eregi-path-disclosure(16294) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oscnukelite-eregi-path-disclosure(16297) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 6593 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20040606 Re: [Squid 2004-Nuke-001] Inadequate Security Checking in PHPNuke (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 10447 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20040601 [Squid 2004-betaNC-001] Inadequate Security Checking in NukeCops (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- osc2nuke-eregi-path-disclosure(16296) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 11766 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20040601 [Squid 2004-Nuke-001] Inadequate Security Checking in PHPNuke (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-2036 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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