The viewtopic.php security hole in phpBB is fixed in version 2.0.11, which has been available for more than a month. The security hole is different from a phpBB exploit published earlier this week that targets a flaw in the PHP scripting language.

PHP, an open source server-side scripting language, is widely used to power web applications that connect with databases such as MySQL, and is commonly bunded with shared hosting accounts offered by web hosting providers. phpBB is among the web’s most popular bulletin board programs, with more than 156,000 registered members of its user forum.