CVE-2007-2149

EPSS 3.1%

Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier stores usernames and unencrypted passwords in (1) classes/vars.php and (2) classes/varstuff.php, and recommends 0666 or 0777 permissions for these files, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the files, and allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a direct request for admin/options.php.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24873 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2595 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1386