CVE-2006-5284: PHP News Reader

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in auth/phpbb.inc.php in Shen Cheng-Da PHP News Reader (aka pnews) 2.6.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the CFG[auth_phpbb_path] parameter.

Affected products

• PHP News Reader PHP News Reader: up to and including 2.6.4; version 2.6.2 only

Published 2006-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.