CVE-2023-5917

phpBB Smiley Pack acp_icons.php main cross site scripting

State: Published
Severity: 2.4 Low
Published: Nov 2, 2023
Updated: Feb 27, 2025
Reserved: Nov 2, 2023

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	2.4 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	VulDB
3.0	2.4 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	VulDB
2.0	3.3 Low	AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:P/A:N	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Cross Site Scripting

Affected Products

Product	Versions
phpBBn/a	3.3.0Affected 3.3.1Affected 3.3.2Affected 3.3.3Affected 3.3.4Affected 3.3.5Affected 3.3.6Affected 3.3.7Affected 3.3.8Affected 3.3.9Affected 3.3.10Affected

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.244307vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.244307signaturepermissions-required
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2646991related
https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/ccf6e6c255d38692d72fcb613b113e6eaa240aacpatch
https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/releases/tag/release-3.3.11patch
https://www.phpbb.com/product

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