CVE-2005-1290

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) u parameter to profile.php, (2) highlight parameter to viewtopic.php, or (3) forumname or forumdesc parameters to admin_forums.php.

Affected products

Phpbb Group Phpbb: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+10)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111428283721756&w=2
http://neosecurityteam.net/Advisories/Advisory-14.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111428283721756&w=2
http://neosecurityteam.net/Advisories/Advisory-14.txt

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