CVE-2006-3136: Nucleus Group Nucleus CMS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in Nucleus 3.23 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL the DIR_LIBS parameter in (1) path/action.php, and to files in path/nucleus including (2) media.php, (3) /xmlrpc/server.php, and (4) /xmlrpc/api_metaweblog.inc.php. NOTE: this is a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-2583. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties, who state that the DIR_LIBS parameter is defined in an include file before being used

Affected products

• Nucleus Group Nucleus CMS: version 3.0 only; version 3.0_1 only; version 3.0_rc only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.21 only; …

Published 2006-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.