CVE-2001-1471: Phpbb

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Phpbb Phpbb: up to and including 1.4.0

Published 2001-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.