CVE-2004-1315
N/A
Published: December 31, 2004 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorphpBB
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 73%
Description
viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.x before 2.0.11 improperly URL decodes the highlight parameter when extracting words and phrases to highlight, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by double-encoding the highlight value so that special characters are inserted into the result, which is then processed by PHP exec, as exploited by the Santy.A worm.
Remediation
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References (11)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110029415208724&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110365752909029&w=2Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/13239/Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNPatchUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/497400x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240513Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/385208Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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