National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0438
Original release date:02/06/2006
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when Link to off-site Avatar or bbcode (IMG) are enabled, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as a logged in user via a link or IMG tag in a user profile, as demonstrated using links to (1) admin/admin_users.php and (2) modcp.php.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0445
External Source: SREASONRES
Name: 20060203 phpBB 2.0.19 Cross Site Request Forgeries and XSS Admin
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18693
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: phpbb-referer-header-http-xss(24497)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 22929
External Source: SREASON
Name: 406
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20060203 phpBB 2.0.19 Cross Site Request Forgeries and XSS Admin