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CVE-2005-3310· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Interpretation conflict in phpBB 2.0.17, with remote avatars and avatar uploading enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbit

Interpretation conflict in phpBB 2.0.17, with remote avatars and avatar uploading enabled, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML file with a GIF or JPEG file extension, which causes the HTML to be executed by a victim who views the file in Internet Explorer, which renders malformed image types as HTML, enabling cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: it could be argued that this vulnerability is due to a design flaw in Internet Explorer (CVE-2005-3312) and the proper fix should be in that browser; if so, then this should not be treated as a vulnerability in phpBB.

LowCVSS 3.5 · v2.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Oct 25, 2005
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.2% · 66th percentile
CWE
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Action score

14

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CVSS
14 / 40 · 3.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.2%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
phpbb groupphpbb

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • phpbb group phpbb2.0.17

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:3.1phpbb2before 2.0.13+1-6sarge22.0.13+1-6sarge2

Same product

phpbb group: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2005-2086PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.0.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code.
    56Plan
  • CVE-2004-1315viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.x before 2.0.11 improperly URL decodes the highlight parameter when extracting words and phrases to highlight, whic
    52Plan
  • CVE-2002-0473db.php in phpBB 2.0 (aka phpBB2) RC-3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code from remote servers via the phpbb_root_p
    42Plan
  • CVE-2007-1695PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in includes/usercp_register.php in phpBB 2.0.19 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP cod
    41Plan
  • CVE-2002-1537admin_ug_auth.php in phpBB 2.0.0 allows local users to gain administrator privileges by directly calling admin_ug_auth.php with modifed form
    41Plan
  • CVE-2002-2176SQL injection vulnerability in Gender MOD 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to gain administrative access via the user_level parameter in the Us
    41Plan

Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:phpbb22.0.13+1-6sarge2 · Debian:3.1Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

    If successful

    Confidentiality
    none
    Integrity
    P · data or configuration can be modified
    Availability
    none
    Attack complexity
    M
    Confidentiality impact
    None
    Integrity impact
    P
    Availability impact
    None

    Weakness class (CWE)

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    CVSS vector

    AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

    nvd-primary

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    References

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