Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0902

Title: phpBB XSS via [IMG] tag with http:// and double-quote

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2002-0902

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 04, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0902: 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.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/274273 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9178.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4858 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/274273 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9178.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4858

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0902 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21486

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 04, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.