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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2000-0745 in the critical feed json

admin.php3 in PHP-Nuke does not properly verify the PHP-Nuke administrator password, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges by re…

published 2000-10-13 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0740

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.1%
EPSS 12.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

admin.php3 in PHP-Nuke does not properly verify the PHP-Nuke administrator password, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges by requesting a URL that does not specify the aid or pwd parameter.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20158)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20158 PHP-Nuke 1.0/2.5 - Administrative Privileges webapps, 2000-08-21
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0243.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1592 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.