CVE-2006-0438: Phpbb Group Phpbb

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.19, when Link to off-site Avatar or bbcode (IMG) are enabled, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as a logged in user via a link or IMG tag in a user profile, as demonstrated using links to (1) admin/admin_users.php and (2) modcp.php.

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 2006-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.