CVE detail
CVE-2004-1315 — CVE-2004-1315
Published 2004-11-12 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor phpbb_group · Product phpbb · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.7210
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
99.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References