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CVE-2015-1431 (GCVE-0-2015-1431)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:40
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Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/startup.php in phpBB before 3.0.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to "Relative Path Overwrite."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-01-20 00:00
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