CVE-2005-4346

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Invalid SQL syntax error in blog.php in phpBB Blog 2.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the full path of the application via an invalid permalink parameter to index.php, which produces an invalid SQL query that leaks the full pathname in a SQL syntax error message. NOTE: this was originally claimed to be SQL injection, but a cleansing step strips all non-digit characters and leaves an empty permalink argument, which leads to the syntax error.

Affected products

Anthony Boyd Phpbb Blog: through 2.2.2

References

http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/phpbb-blog-222-sql-inj-vuln.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21565
http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=308
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23495
http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/phpbb-blog-222-sql-inj-vuln.html
http://www.osvdb.org/21565
http://www.outshine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=308
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23495

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