CVE-2002-0533: Phpbb Group Phpbb

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

phpBB 1.4.4 and earlier with BBcode allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) and corrupt the database via null \0 characters within [code] tags.

Affected products

• Phpbb Group Phpbb: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; …

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