CVE-2006-4666
Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in Stefan Ernst Newsscript (aka WM-News) 0.5 beta allow remote attackers to execute…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in Stefan Ernst Newsscript (aka WM-News) 0.5 beta allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the (1) ide parameter in (a) article.php; or the (2) pwfile parameter in (b) delete.php, (c) modify.php, (d) admin.php, or (e) modify_go.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- WM-News 0.5 - Multiple Remote File Inclusions (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2326webapps, phppublished 7 Sept 2006Verified
- PHP-Nuke Book Catalog Module 1.0 - 'upload.php' Arbitrary File Upload (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28493webapps, phppublished 7 Sept 2006Verified
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
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- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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)
- 4.5% · top 8.4% of all CVEs (10 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
9
- 1533 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 1016813 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20060907 WM-News v0.5 - Remote File Include Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19886 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- newsscript-article-file-include(28892) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 21826 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28813 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- wmnews-multiple-file-include(28813) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3558 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2006-4654 (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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