A vulnerability has been identified in Extreme phpBB, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to an input validation error in the "forum/includes/functions.php" script that does not validate the "phpbb_root_path" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious PHP scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.
Vulnerable Products
Vulnerable Software: Extreme phpBB version 3.0.1 and prior