CVE-2006-5305

Exp

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in lat2cyr.php in the lat2cyr 1.0.1 and earlier phpbb module allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the phpbb_root_path parameter.

Published: 2006-10-17 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5305 is rated High Exploit Risk (64/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.09%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-5305

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2546 exploit_db edb 2006-10-13 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5305

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 4.58% 3.09% -1.49%
2 2025-09-05 2.94% 4.58% +1.65%
3 2025-06-05 — 2.94% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5305

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.1 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 4.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5305

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5305

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5305: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5305

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2006-5305

Solution: Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5305

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
phpbb lat2cyr <= 1.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:phpbb:lat2cyr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5305

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