Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1193

Title: phpBB multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-1193

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 16, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

16.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1193: The bbencode_second_pass and make_clickable 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.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://castlecops.com/t123194-.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111552510000088&w=2 http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/May/0098.html http://secunia.com/advisories/15298 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013918 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014117 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113196 http://www.osvdb.org/16439 http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=288194 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13545 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20574 http://castlecops.com/t123194-.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111552510000088&w=2 http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/May/0098.html http://secunia.com/advisories/15298 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013918 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014117 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/113196 http://www.osvdb.org/16439 http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=288194 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13545 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20574

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-2005-1193 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25628

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 16, 2005 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.