CVE-2015-1431

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

10/02/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:phpbb:phpbb::::::::		3.0.12 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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