static bool CheckOnlinePuke ( int script, int args[4], bool always )
{
    (...)

    if ( ( NETWORK_GetState( ) == NETSTATE_SERVER ) || ACS_IsScriptClientSide ( script ) )
    {
        // *** HERE: If 'NETWORK_GetState() == NETSTATE_SERVER' and 'consoleplayer' happens to be 0
        // for some reason, this would cause the script's activator to be Player 0.
        // Instead of trying to get a player activator, would passing NULL fix the issue?
        P_StartScript( players[consoleplayer].mo, NULL, script, level.mapname,
            args, 4, ( (script < 0 ) ? ACS_ALWAYS : 0 ) | ACS_NET );

        if ( ( NETWORK_GetState( ) == NETSTATE_SERVER ) && ( ACS_IsCalledFromConsoleCommand( ) == false ) )
        {
            SERVER_Printf( "The Server host or an RCON user is possibly cheating "
                "by calling \"puke %s %d %d %d %d\"\n",
                FBehavior::RepresentScript( script ).GetChars(),
                args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3] );
        }
    }

    (...)
}

Quote from "Kaminsky"
Fixing this behaviour could also make it feasible to check if the RCON puked an ACS script