PT-2010-4354 · Simpnews · Simpnews

Published 2010-07-23 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-2859

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SimpNews versions 2.47.3 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid lang parameter in the news.php file. This is achieved by revealing the installation path in an error message.

Recommendations For SimpNews versions 2.47.3 and earlier, consider restricting access to the news.php file until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the lang parameter in the news.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-2859

Affected Products

Simpnews

References · 4

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.org/1007-exploits/simpnews-xss.txt · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2859 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2859 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/512271/100/0/threaded · Note