PT-2007-5992 · Simpnews · Simpnews

Published 2007-09-26 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-4874

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SimpNews version 2.41.03

Description: The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. Specifically, the vulnerabilities are found in the l username parameter to "admin/layout2b.php" and the backurl parameter to "comment.php".

Recommendations: For SimpNews version 2.41.03, consider restricting access to the admin/layout2b.php and comment.php scripts until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the l username and backurl parameters in the affected scripts.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4874

Affected Products

Simpnews

References · 11

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/30618 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/30617 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4874 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4874 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26965 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25809 · Note
• http://forum.boesch-it.de/viewtopic.php?t=2791 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/480598/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3166 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36774 · Note
• http://netvigilance.com/advisory0070 · Note