CVE-2008-3922
awstatstotals.php in AWStats Totals 1.0 through 1.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via PHP sequences in the sort…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 53.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
awstatstotals.php in AWStats Totals 1.0 through 1.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via PHP sequences in the sort parameter, which is used by the multisort function when dynamically creating an anonymous PHP function.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- AWStats Totals multisort Remote Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/unix/webapp/awstatstotals_multisortRank excellentdisclosed 26 Aug 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- AWStats Totals 1.14 multisort - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 17324webapps, phppublished 25 May 2011Verified
- AWStats Totals 1.14 - 'AWStatstotals.php' Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6368webapps, phppublished 5 Sept 2008Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 6368 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 17324 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 53.2% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 6368 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 17324 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ekenda2/EMORY-2008-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.telartis.nl/xcms/awstats/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- awstatstotals-multisort-command-execution(44712) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 4218 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2442 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31630 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 8259 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 30856 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080826 Multiple Vulnerabilities in AWStats Totals (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-2008-3907 (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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