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CVE-2015-1431

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-02-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/startup.php in phpBB before 3.0.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to "Relative Path Overwrite."

Affected products

• phpBB: through 3.0.12

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/373
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72405
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100670
• https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/eaeb88133f1f028fa06f0ebe5639668436fd469e
• https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/3316
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25
• https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-13531
• https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.0.13
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/373
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72405
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100670
• https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/eaeb88133f1f028fa06f0ebe5639668436fd469e

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