What is CVE-2005-1921?

CVE-2005-1921 is a vulnerability in Drupal, classified under Code Injection. Published 2005-07-05.

Is CVE-2005-1921 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Drupal

CVE-2005-1921

Eval injection vulnerability in PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 and earlier (aka XML-RPC or xmlrpc) and PHPXMLRPC (aka XML-RPC For PHP or php-xmlrpc) 1.1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) WordPress, (2) Serendipity, (3) Drupal, (4) egroupware, (5) MailWatch, (6) TikiWiki, (7) phpWebSite, (8) Ampache, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an XML file, which is not properly sanitized before being used in an eval statement.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published 2005-07-05 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.791 (99.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-17.

High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.791 · newest: 0.791 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

rapid7/metasploit-framework

References

oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:350 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/15947 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/15852 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/15944 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/15883 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/15872 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/15895 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11294 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2005-1921?: CVE-2005-1921 is a vulnerability in Drupal, classified under Code Injection. Published 2005-07-05.
Is CVE-2005-1921 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.