CVE-2005-1193: Phpbb Group Phpbb

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 16.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bbencode_second_pass and make_clickable functions in bbcode.php for phpBB before 2.0.15, as used in viewtopic.php, privmsg.php, and other scripts, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script via a BBcode tag with a (1) javascript:, (2) applet:, (3) about:, (4) activex:, (5) chrome:, or (6) script: URI scheme, as demonstrated using the URL tag.

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 2005-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.