CVE-2006-5897: Phpheaven Phpmychat Plus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in PhpMyChat Plus 1.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the ChatPath parameter to (1) avatar.php, (2) colorhelp_popup.php, (3) color_popup.php, (4) index.php, (5) index1.php, (6) lib/connected_users.lib.php, (7) lib/index.lib.php, and (8) phpMyChat.php3; and the (9) L parameter to logs.php. NOTE: CVE analysis suggests that vector 1 might be incorrect.

Affected products

• Phpheaven Phpmychat Plus: up to and including 1.9

Published 2006-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.