Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1290

Title: phpBB multiple XSS vulnerabilities

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1290.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1290: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) u parameter to profile.php, (2) highlight parameter to viewtopic.php, or (3) forumname or forumdesc parameters to admin_forums.php.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111428283721756&w=2 http://neosecurityteam.net/Advisories/Advisory-14.txt http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111428283721756&w=2 http://neosecurityteam.net/Advisories/Advisory-14.txt

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1290 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.

May 02, 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.