CVE-2004-2044: Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP-Nuke 7.3, and other products that use the PHP-Nuke codebase such as the Nuke Cops betaNC PHP-Nuke Bundle, OSCNukeLite 3.1, and OSC2Nuke 7x do not properly use the eregi() PHP function with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to identify the calling script, which allows remote attackers to directly access scripts, obtain path information via a PHP error message, and possibly gain access, as demonstrated using an HTTP request that contains the "admin.php" string.

Affected products

• Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.2a only; version 5.3.1 only; …
• Oscommerce OSC2NUKE: version 7x_1.0 only
• Paul Laudanski Betanc PHP-Nuke: version bundle only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only

Published 2004-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.