Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when Link to off-site Avatar or bbcode (IMG) are enabled, allows remote…

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when Link to off-site Avatar or bbcode (IMG) are enabled, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as a logged in user via a link or IMG tag in a user profile, as demonstrated using links to (1) admin/admin_users.php and (2) modcp.php.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 22929 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• ADV-2006-0445 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 18693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20060203 phpBB 2.0.19 Cross Site Request Forgeries and XSS Admin (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 20060203 phpBB 2.0.19 Cross Site Request Forgeries and XSS Admin (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONRESx_transferred
• phpbb-referer-header-http-xss(24497) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 406 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 16:34 UTC.