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CVE-2001-1471

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-07-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-665

Description

prefs.php in phpBB 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via an invalid language value, which prevents the variables (1) $l_statsblock in prefs.php or (2) $l_privnotify in auth.php from being properly initialized, which can be modified by the user and later used in an eval statement.

Affected products

• phpBB: through 1.4.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-08/0123.html
• http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2001-08/0087.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/920931
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3167
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6944
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-08/0123.html
• http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2001-08/0087.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/920931
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3167
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6944

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