CVE-2002-0473: Phpbb Group Phpbb

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

db.php in phpBB 2.0 (aka phpBB2) RC-3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code from remote servers via the phpbb_root_path parameter.

Affected products

• Phpbb Group Phpbb: version 2.0_beta1 only; version 2.0_rc1 only; version 2.0_rc2 only; version 2.0_rc3 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.