Detections
Analytics
CVE-2004-1315
critical
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.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200411-32
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18052
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10701
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/385208
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240513
http://secunia.com/advisories/13239/
http://marc.info/?t=110079440800004&r=1&w=2