Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3310

Title: phpBB 2.0.17 avatar HTML file XSS via IE rendering

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3310.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 26, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.17%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3310: 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.

Impacted Vendors

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phpbb 1
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phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0479.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113017003617987&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17295/ http://secunia.com/advisories/18098 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15170 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22837 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0479.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113017003617987&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17295/ http://secunia.com/advisories/18098 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15170 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22837
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3310 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.