CVE-2005-1193

Phpbb vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

16.4%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

The bbencode_second_pass and make_clickable functions in bbcode.php for phpBB before 2.0.15, as used in viewtopic.php, privmsg.php, and other scripts, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script via a BBcode tag with a (1) javascript:, (2) applet:, (3) about:, (4) activex:, (5) chrome:, or (6) script: URI scheme, as demonstrated using the URL tag.

Affected vendor

Phpbb Group

Affected product

Phpbb

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-05-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-1193.
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