CVE-2008-1066
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD
The modifier.regex_replace.php plugin in Smarty before 2.6.19, as used by Serendipity (S9Y) and other products, allows attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions via templates, related to a '\0' character in a search string.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1077)
- Published
- February 28, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1077 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- smarty / smarty
References
- http://blog.s9y.org/archives/191-Serendipity-1.3-beta1-released.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00008.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29241(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29392(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29398(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29405(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29562(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29839(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201111-04.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1520
- http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?p=47652
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28105
- http://www.smarty.net/misc/NEWS
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41002
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00298.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00358.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00551.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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