CVE-2005-1921
Description
Eval injection vulnerability in PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 and earlier (aka XML-RPC or xmlrpc) and PHPXMLRPC (aka XML-RPC For PHP or php-xmlrpc) 1.1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) WordPress, (2) Serendipity, (3) Drupal, (4) egroupware, (5) MailWatch, (6) TikiWiki, (7) phpWebSite, (8) Ampache, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an XML file, which is not properly sanitized before being used in an eval statement.
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Key data
EPSS
- Score
- 0.79071 (79.1% probability)
- Percentile
- 99.6%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
References
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:350 (oval.cisecurity.org)vdb-entrysignature
- DSA-789 (debian.org)vendor-advisory
- 15947 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15852 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15944 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SR:2005:018 (novell.com)vendor-advisory
- 15883 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15872 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15895 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11294 (oval.cisecurity.org)vdb-entrysignature
- 1015336 (securitytracker.com)vdb-entry
- DSA-746 (debian.org)vendor-advisory
- 17674 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00087-07012005
- ADV-2005-2827 (vupen.com)vdb-entry
- 15917 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- DSA-747 (debian.org)vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2005:041 (novell.com)vendor-advisory
- hardened-php.net/advisory-022005.php
- SSRT051069 (securityfocus.com)vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2005:051 (marc.info)vendor-advisory
- 15957 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- ampache.org/announce/3_3_1_2.php
- 15810 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200507-01 (security.gentoo.org)vendor-advisory
- drupal.org/security/drupal-sa-2005-003/advisory.txt
- 14088 (securityfocus.com)vdb-entry
- 16693 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 20050629 Advisory 02/2005: Remote code execution in Serendipity (marc.info)mailing-list
- 20050629 [DRUPAL-SA-2005-003] Drupal 4.6.2 / 4.5.4 fixes critical XML-RPC issue (marc.info)mailing-list
- GLSA-200507-07 (security.gentoo.org)vendor-advisory
- 15904 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15903 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2005:049 (novell.com)vendor-advisory
- sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=338803
- 17440 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15922 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15884 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15916 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2005:564 (redhat.com)vendor-advisory
- pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC/download/1.3.1
- 16001 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87163
- MDKSA-2005:109 (mandriva.com)vendor-advisory
- GLSA-200507-06 (security.gentoo.org)vendor-advisory
- DSA-745 (debian.org)vendor-advisory
- 15855 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 16339 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 18003 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 15861 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
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