Cross-site scripting in PHP - CVE-2005-3388
Published: June 23, 2020 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110500
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: []
CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3388
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in the phpinfo function in PHP 4.x up to 4.4.0 and 5.x up to 5.0.5. A remote authenticated attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
PHP
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
dev-php/php
dev-php/php-cgi
ca-certificates
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
dev-php/php
dev-php/php-cgi
ca-certificates
How to mitigate CVE-2005-3388
Install update from vendor's website.
PHP - addressed in versions 4.4.0, 4.10
dev-php/php - update to 4.4.0-r4
dev-php/php-cgi - update to 4.4.0-r8
ca-certificates - update to 2020.2.41-1.1.fc32
dev-php/php - update to 4.4.0-r4
dev-php/php-cgi - update to 4.4.0-r8
ca-certificates - update to 2020.2.41-1.1.fc32
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
External References
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00786522
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0549.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17371
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17490
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17510
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17531
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17557
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17559
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18198
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18669
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21252
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22691
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/133
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015130
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-037.htm
- http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-28-FLSA_2005_166943__Updated_php_packages_fix_security_issues.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-08.xml
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_182005.77.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:213
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_27_sr.html
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2005.027-php.html
- http://www.php.net/release_4_4_1.php
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-831.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-838.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415292
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15248
- http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2006/TLSA-2006-38.txt
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2254
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4320
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PIRZJHM6UDNWNHZ3PCMEZ2YUK3CWY2UE/
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10542
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-232-1/