CVE-2002-0902: Phpbb Group Phpbb

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.0 (phpBB2) allows remote attackers to execute Javascript as other phpBB users by including a http:// and a double-quote (") in the [IMG] tag, which bypasses phpBB's security check, terminates the src parameter of the resulting HTML IMG tag, and injects the script.

Affected products

• Phpbb Group Phpbb: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0_beta1 only; version 2.0_rc1 only; version 2.0_rc2 only; version 2.0_rc3 only; version 2.0_rc4 only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.