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CVE-2005-3310

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-10-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Interpretation conflict in phpBB 2.0.17, with remote avatars and avatar uploading enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML file with a GIF or JPEG file extension, which causes the HTML to be executed by a victim who views the file in Internet Explorer, which renders malformed image types as HTML, enabling cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: it could be argued that this vulnerability is due to a design flaw in Internet Explorer (CVE-2005-3312) and the proper fix should be in that browser; if so, then this should not be treated as a vulnerability in phpBB.

Affected products

• Phpbb Group Phpbb: 2.0.17

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0479.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113017003617987&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17295/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18098
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15170
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22837
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0479.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113017003617987&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17295/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18098
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925

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