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Status published
Medium
CVE-2015-1431
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/startup.php in phpBB before 3.0.13...
Vulnerability 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 Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/3316
- https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-13531
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/373
- https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.0.13
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72405
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100670
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/eaeb88133f1f028fa06f0ebe5639668436fd469e
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
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Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 10th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.