CVE-2002-0287: Powie Pforum

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pforum 1.14 and earlier does not explicitly enable PHP magic quotes, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges via an SQL injection attack when the PHP server is not configured to use magic quotes by default.

Affected products

• Powie Pforum: up to and including 1.14

Published 2002-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.