Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4357

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

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4357.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 20, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4357: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.18, when "Allowed HTML tags" is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javascript via a permitted HTML tag with " (quote) characters and active attributes such as onmouseover.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113484567432679&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/18125 http://secunia.com/advisories/18252 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/29 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/269 http://www.osvdb.org/21803 http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=352966 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420537/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2991 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0010 http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113484567432679&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/18125 http://secunia.com/advisories/18252 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/29 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/269 http://www.osvdb.org/21803 http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=352966 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/420537/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2991 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0010

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4357 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.

December 20, 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:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.