Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1431

Title: Phpbb Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-1431.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Feb 10, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1431: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/startup.php in phpBB before 3.0.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to "Relative Path Overwrite."

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/373 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72405 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100670 https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/eaeb88133f1f028fa06f0ebe5639668436fd469e https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/3316 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25 https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-13531 https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.0.13 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/373 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72405 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100670 https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/eaeb88133f1f028fa06f0ebe5639668436fd469e https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/3316 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25 https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-13531 https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.0.13

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-2015-1431 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 10, 2015 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.