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CVE-2002-0902

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.0 (phpBB2) allows remote attackers to execute Javascript as other phpBB users by including a http:// and a double-quote (") in the [IMG] tag, which bypasses phpBB's security check, terminates the src parameter of the resulting HTML IMG tag, and injects the script.

Published: Oct 4, 2002 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (6)

Vendor Product Version
phpbb_group phpbb 2.0.0
phpbb_group phpbb 2.0_beta1
phpbb_group phpbb 2.0_rc1
phpbb_group phpbb 2.0_rc2
phpbb_group phpbb 2.0_rc3
phpbb_group phpbb 2.0_rc4

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-m847-cc8r-22w3

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.0 (phpBB2) allows remote attackers to execute...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.5 / 10
EPSS Score 7.16%

Top 6% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 32.1 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub