CVE-2003-0249: PHP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP treats unknown methods such as "PoSt" as a GET request, which could allow attackers to intended access restrictions if PHP is running on a server that passes on all methods, such as Apache httpd 2.0, as demonstrated using a Limit directive. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the Apache security team, saying "It is by design that PHP allows scripts to process any request method. A script which does not explicitly verify the request method will hence be processed as normal for arbitrary methods. It is therefore expected behaviour that one cannot implement per-method access control using the Apache configuration alone, which is the assumption made in this report.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 4.4.6 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.