Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

adminugauth.php in phpBB 2.0.0 allows local users to gain administrator privileges by directly calling adminugauth.php with modifed form fields such as "u".

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

db.php in phpBB 2.0 (aka phpBB2) RC-3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code from remote servers via the phpbbrootpath parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

SQL injection vulnerability in Gender MOD 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to gain administrative access via the userlevel parameter in the User Profile page.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Certain forms in phpBB before 2.0.22 lack session checks, which has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unspecified vulnerability in phpBB before 2.0.22 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to a "negative start parameter."

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unspecified vulnerability in phpBB before 2.0.22 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to "criteria for 'bad' redirection targets."

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

DISPUTED PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in includes/usercpregister.php in phpBB 2.0.19 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the phpbbrootpath parameter. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third-party researchers, stating that the file checks for a global constant and cannot be accessed directly.

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First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

prefs.php in phpBB 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via an invalid language value, which prevents the variables (1) $lstatsblock in prefs.php or (2) $lprivnotify in auth.php from being properly initialized, which can be modified by the user and later used in an eval statement.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in bbmemberlist.php for phpBB 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries via the $sortby variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The bbencodesecondpass and makeclickable functions in bbcode.php for phpBB before 2.0.15, as used in viewtopic.php, privmsg.php, and other scripts, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script via a BBcode tag with a (1) javascript:, (2) applet:, (3) about:, (4) activex:, (5) chrome:, or (6) script: URI scheme, as demonstrated using the URL tag.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in kb.php in the Knowledge Base module for phpBB allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and execute SQL commands via the cat parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in albumsearch.php in Photo Album 2.0.53 for phpBB allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) mode or (2) search parameters.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

sessions.php in phpBB 2.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via the autologinid value in a cookie.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in phpBB 2 before 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the topic type.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

usercpregister.php in phpBB 2.0.17 allows remote attackers to modify regular expressions and execute PHP code via the signaturebbcodeuid parameter, as demonstrated by injecting an "e" modifier into a pregreplace statement.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that deregister global variables by setting both a GET/POST/COOKIE (GPC) variable and a GLOBALS[] variable with the same name, which causes phpBB to unset the GLOBALS[] variable but not the GPC variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when registerglobals is enabled and the sessionstart function has not been called to handle a session, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks by setting the $SESSION and $HTTPSESSIONVARS variables to strings instead of arrays, which causes an arraymerge function call to fail.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in usercpregister.php in phpBB 2.0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the signaturebbcodeuid parameter, which is not properly initialized.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when the registerlongarrays directive is disabled, allows remote attackers to modify global variables and bypass security mechanisms because PHP does not define the associated HTTP variables.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Meilad File upload script (up.php) mod for phpBB 2.0.x does not properly limit the types of files that can be uploaded, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands by uploading PHP files, then directly requesting them from the uploads directory.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.0.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in search.php for phpBB 2.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL and gain privileges via the searchid parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in pageheader.php in phpBB 2.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to brute force user passwords and possibly gain unauthorized access to forums via the forumid parameter to index.php.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in albumportal.php in phpBB modified by Przemo 1.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the phpbbrootpath parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.0 (phpBB2) allows remote attackers to execute Javascript as other phpBB users by including a http:// and a double-quote (") in the [IMG] tag, which bypasses phpBB's security check, terminates the src parameter of the resulting HTML IMG tag, and injects the script.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.x before 2.0.11 improperly URL decodes the highlight parameter when extracting words and phrases to highlight, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by double-encoding the highlight value so that special characters are inserted into the result, which is then processed by PHP exec, as exploited by the Santy.A worm.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admincash.php for the Cash Mod module for phpBB allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by modifying the phpbbrootpath parameter to reference a URL on a remote web server that contains the code.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
SQL Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

SQL injection vulnerability in search.php for phpBB 1.0 through 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL and gain privileges via the searchresults parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

DISPUTED PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in groupcp.php in phpBB 2.0.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the phpbbrootpath parameter. NOTE: CVE and the vendor dispute this vulnerability because $phpbbrootpath is defined before use.

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First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admin/admintopicactionlogging.php in Admin Topic Action Logging Mod 0.95 and earlier, as used in phpBB 2.0 up to 2.0.21, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the phpbbrootpath parameter.

First published (updated )

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