CVE-2005-2005: Ultimate PHP Board

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 GOLD and earlier stores the users.dat file under the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information on registered users via a direct request to db/users.dat.

Affected products

• Ultimate PHP Board Ultimate PHP Board: version 1.8 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.9 only; version 1.9.6 only

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