Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3418

Title: Phpbb Group Phpbb Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3418.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 01, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3418: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) error_msg parameter to usercp_register.php, (2) forward_page parameter to login.php, and (3) list_cat parameter to search.php, which are not initialized as variables.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081113317600&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17366 http://secunia.com/advisories/18098 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/130 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015121 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925 http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_172005.75.html http://www.osvdb.org/20387 http://www.osvdb.org/20388 http://www.osvdb.org/20389 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15243 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2250 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081113317600&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17366 http://secunia.com/advisories/18098 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/130 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015121 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925 http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_172005.75.html http://www.osvdb.org/20387 http://www.osvdb.org/20388 http://www.osvdb.org/20389 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15243 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2250

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-2005-3418 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.

November 01, 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.