Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7143

Title: Phpbb Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-7143.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Sep 01, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7143: phpBB 2.0.23 includes the session ID in a request to modcp.php when the moderator or administrator closes a thread, which allows remote attackers to hijack the session via a post in the thread containing a URL to a remotely hosted image, which might include the session ID in the Referer header.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb_group 1

phpbb 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/51121 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489815/100/0/threaded http://osvdb.org/51121 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489815/100/0/threaded

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-7143 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 01, 2009 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.