CVE-2007-5898

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The (1) htmlentities and (2) htmlspecialchars functions in PHP before 5.2.5 accept partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different issue than CVE-2006-5465.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.4/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 20, 2007
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2007-5898: Medium severity, CVSS 6.4 | Vulnix