CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1471

8.8 HIGH Published 2001-07-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-07-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

prefs.php in phpBB 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via an invalid language value, which prevents the variables (1) $l_statsblock in prefs.php or (2) $l_privnotify in auth.php from being properly initialized, which can be modified by the user and later used in an eval statement.

Affected configurations

• phpbb phpbb (<= 1.4.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
  • CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code weakness

References