Package: phpbb2
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

[Cc:ing security@ as Sarge is affected as well]

phpbb 2.0.16 fixes a security issue due to inproper escaping of the
$highlight_match variable in viewtopic.php.

Upstream developers classify it as critical and provide something that
has a close resemblance of a patch:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=302011

Cheers,
        Moritz

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