CVE-2004-1315
HIGHEPSS 99th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110029415208724&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110365752909029&w=2
- http://marc.info/?t=110079440800004&r=1&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/13239/
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/497400
- http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240513
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/385208
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10701
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-356A.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18052
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200411-32
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