CVE-2008-5989

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—Exploit

Severity6.8Medium · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability2.05 %higher than 81% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

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.

CVSS

Base score: 6.8
Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.05 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 81
Score date: 10/22/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · PHPcounter 1.3.2 - 'defs.php' Local File Inclusion (9/24/2008)

Affected technologies (1)

Phpcounter — Phpcounter

CWEs

CWE-22

References

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