CVE-2002-1707: Phpbb Group Phpbb

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

install.php in phpBB 2.0 through 2.0.1, when "allow_url_fopen" and "register_globals" variables are set to "on", allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by modifying the phpbb_root_dir parameter to reference a URL on a remote web server that contains the code.

Affected products

• Phpbb Group Phpbb: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0_rc1 only; version 2.0_rc2 only; version 2.0_rc3 only; version 2.0_rc4 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.