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CVE-2003-0486

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-0486 describes a SQL injection vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.5 and earlier, specifically within the viewtopic.php script. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to steal password hashes by manipulating the topic_id parameter. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), it is a medium-severity issue, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to partial confidentiality impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpbb_group:phpbb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-44 · Jun 20, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0195 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/12366
phpbb.com / phpBB/viewtopic.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/7979
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory