CVE-2001-1032 — admin.php in PHP-Nuke 5.2 and earlier, except 5.0RC1, does not check login credentials for upload operations, which allows remote attackers to copy and upload arbitrary files and read the PHP-Nuke configuration file by directly calling admin.php with an upload parameter and specifying the file to copy

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admin.php in PHP-Nuke 5.2 and earlier, except 5.0RC1, does not check login credentials for upload operations, which allows remote attackers to copy and upload arbitrary files and read the PHP-Nuke configuration file by directly calling admin.php with an upload parameter and specifying the file to copy

Published Jun 25, 2002

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.12%

Description

admin.php in PHP-Nuke 5.2 and earlier, except 5.0RC1, does not check login credentials for upload operations, which allows remote attackers to copy and upload arbitrary files and read the PHP-Nuke configuration file by directly calling admin.php with an upload parameter and specifying the file to copy.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.12% 0.03124

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03124

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.12% (0.03124)	87.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.12% (0.03124)	86.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	23.19% (0.23192)	95.48th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	8.96% (0.08963)	94.59th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 3, 2023	10.14% (0.10144)	94.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	13.68% (0.13677)	94.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0203.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=113892
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3361
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7170
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0203.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=113892		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3361		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7170		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 25, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jan 31, 2002

Link CVE-2001-1032

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-1032

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-1032