CVE-2005-4731

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-4731 · Published 31/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4731 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting pear html quickform controller (the php group).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pear html quickform controller the_php_group	`= 1.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

The Next action in PEAR HTML_QuickForm_Controller 1.0.4 includes the SID in the URL even when session.use_only_cookies is configured, which allows remote attackers to obtain the SID via an HTTP Referer field and possibly other vectors.

References

pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php
pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm_Controller/download
osvdb.org/23766

Running one of these products? Scan your site to see whether it exposes a vulnerable version.

Scan my site free