CVE-2007-5772
Direct static code injection vulnerability in the download module in Flatnuke 3 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Direct static code injection vulnerability in the download module in Flatnuke 3 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary PHP code into a description.it.php file in a subdirectory of Download/ by saving a description and setting fneditmode to 1. NOTE: unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this by leveraging a cookie manipulation issue.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Flatnuke 3 - Remote Cookie Manipulation / Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4562webapps, phppublished 23 Oct 2007Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 4562 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 4562 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20071025 Flatnuke3 Remote Cookie Manipoulation / Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 43636 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2007-5742 (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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