CVE-2006-3053: Phorum

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in common.php in PHORUM 5.1.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the PHORUM[http_path] parameter. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the vendor, who states "common.php is checked on the very first line of non-comment code that it is not being called directly. It has been this way in all 5.x version of Phorum." CVE analysis concurs with the vendor

Affected products

• Phorum Phorum: up to and including 5.1.13; version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.1_pre only; version 3.1.1_rc2 only; version 3.1.1a only; …

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