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CVE-2023-5917

LOW severity · CVSS 2.4 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
2.4CVSS LOW

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in phpBB up to 3.3.10. This issue affects the function main of the file phpBB/includes/acp/acp_icons.php of the component Smiley Pack Handler. The manipulation of the argument pak leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 3.3.11 is able to address this issue. The patch is named ccf6e6c255d38692d72fcb613b113e6eaa240aac. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-244307.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/ccf6e6c255d38692d72fcb613b113e6eaa240aac ↗