CVE-2005-0603: Phpbb Group Phpbb

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

viewtopic.php in phpBB 2.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a highlight parameter containing invalid regular expression syntax, which reveals the path in a PHP error message.

Affected products

• Phpbb Group Phpbb: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2005-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.