PT-2000-1653 · Gwscripts · Gwscripts News Publisher

Published 2000-10-20 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-2000-0720

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GWScripts News Publisher (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns improper authentication in requests to add an author to the author index. This allows remote attackers to add new authors by directly posting an HTTP request to the "new.cgi" program with an addAuthor parameter and setting the Referer to the "news.cgi" program.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0720

Affected Products

Gwscripts News Publisher

References · 6

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=003301c0123b$18f8c1a0$953b29d4@e8s9s4 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/1621 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/20183 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0720 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=003301c0123b%2418f8c1a0%24953b29d4%40e8s9s4 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5169 · Note