Phpbb Group: Security Vulnerabilities
phpBB 2.0.19 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by (1) registering many users through profile.php or (2) using search.php to search in a certain way that confuses the database.
CVSS Score
5.0
EPSS Score
0.062
Published
2006-01-27
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when "Allowed HTML tags" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a permitted HTML tag with ' (single quote) characters and active attributes such as onmouseover, a variant of CVE-2005-4357.
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2006-01-05
SQL injection vulnerability in phpBB 2 before 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the topic type.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2005-12-22
A "missing request validation" error in phpBB 2 before 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to edit private messages of other users, probably by modifying certain parameters or other inputs.
CVSS Score
5.0
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2005-12-22
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.18, when "Allowed HTML tags" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript via a permitted HTML tag with " (quote) characters and active attributes such as onmouseover.
CVSS Score
2.6
EPSS Score
0.014
Published
2005-12-20
admin/admin_disallow.php in phpBB 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path via a direct request with a non-empty setmodules parameter, which causes an invalid append_sid function call that leaks the path in an error message.
CVSS Score
5.0
EPSS Score
0.013
Published
2005-12-20
phpBB 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a large SQL query, which generates an error message that reveals SQL syntax or the full installation path.
CVSS Score
5.0
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2005-11-24
phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that deregister global variables by setting both a GET/POST/COOKIE (GPC) variable and a GLOBALS[] variable with the same name, which causes phpBB to unset the GLOBALS[] variable but not the GPC variable.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.011
Published
2005-11-01
phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled and the session_start function has not been called to handle a session, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks by setting the $_SESSION and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS variables to strings instead of arrays, which causes an array_merge function call to fail.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.008
Published
2005-11-01
phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when the register_long_arrays directive is disabled, allows remote attackers to modify global variables and bypass security mechanisms because PHP does not define the associated HTTP_* variables.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.008
Published
2005-11-01