CVE-2008-5090: Anelectron Advanced Electron Forum

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Electron Inc. Advanced Electron Forum before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via PHP code embedded in bbcode in the email parameter, which is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Affected products

• Anelectron Advanced Electron Forum: up to and including 1.0.6; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only

Published 2008-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.