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CVE-2001-1471
prefs.php in phpBB 1.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code via an invalid language value, which…
High8.8EPSS 7.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.7% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20010804 Re: phpBB 1.4.0 bug leads to easy admin privileges (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20010810 Easily and Remotely Pipe a Covert Shell on phpBB version 1.4.0 and below (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- phpbb-admin-access(6944) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- VU#920931 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 3167 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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