Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-1537

Title: phpBB admin_ug_auth.php local admin privilege gain

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-1537.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 31, 2003

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-1537: admin_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 fields such as "u".

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0385.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10489.php http://www.osvdb.org/4284 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6056 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0385.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10489.php http://www.osvdb.org/4284 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6056

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-1537 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 31, 2003 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.