CVE-2005-0362: Awstats

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

awstats.pl in AWStats 6.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) "pluginmode", (2) "loadplugin", or (3) "noloadplugin" parameters.

Affected products

• Awstats Awstats: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; …

Published 2005-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.