CVE-2002-1846: Yabb

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Yet Another Bulletin Board (YaBB) 1.40 and 1.41 does not require a user to submit the correct password before changing it to a new password, which allows remote attackers to modify passwords by stealing the cookie of another user, modifying the expiretime setting, and submitting the change in a profile2 action to index.php.

Affected products

• Yabb Yabb: version 1.40 only; version 1.41 only

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