CVE-2005-4135

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-4135 · Published 09/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4135 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting simplebbs (simplemedia).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.6%, higher than 95.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simplebbs simplemedia	`= 1.0.6= 1.0.7= 1.1`	No fix yet

Description

Direct static code injection vulnerability in includes/newtopic.php in SimpleBBS 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the Host header (possibly the name parameter or variable), which is then written to data/topics.php.

References

secunia.com/advisories/17949 · Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com/id
securityfocus.com/archive/1/418838/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/15764 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2807

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