CVE-2008-5989: Phpcounter

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in defs.php in PHPcounter 1.3.2 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the l parameter.

Affected products

• Phpcounter Phpcounter: up to and including 1.3.2; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; …

Published 2009-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.