CVE-2005-3418

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) error_msg parameter to usercp_register.php, (2) forward_page parameter to login.php, and (3) list_cat parameter to search.php, which are not initialized as variables.

Affected products

Phpbb Group Phpbb: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+21)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081113317600&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/17366
http://secunia.com/advisories/18098
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/130
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015121
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_172005.75.html
http://www.osvdb.org/20387
http://www.osvdb.org/20388
http://www.osvdb.org/20389
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15243
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2250

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