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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-1193 in the critical feed json

The bbencode_second_pass and make_clickable functions in bbcode.php for phpBB before 2.0.15, as used in viewtopic.php, privmsg.php, and oth…

published 2005-05-16 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1196

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.4%
EPSS 16.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The bbencode_second_pass and make_clickable functions in bbcode.php for phpBB before 2.0.15, as used in viewtopic.php, privmsg.php, and other scripts, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script via a BBcode tag with a (1) javascript:, (2) applet:, (3) about:, (4) activex:, (5) chrome:, or (6) script: URI scheme, as demonstrated using the URL tag.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-25628)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

16.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-25628 phpBB 2.0.x - 'BBCode.php' URL Tag webapps, 2005-05-09

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.