CVE-2005-3416: Phpbb Group Phpbb

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled and the session_start function has not been called to handle a session, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks by setting the $_SESSION and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS variables to strings instead of arrays, which causes an array_merge function call to fail.

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 2005-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.