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CVE-2007-21491 exploit

Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier stores usernames and unencrypted passwords in (1) classes/vars.php and (2) classes…

Published 19 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
10.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
3.1%
percentile 88%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.09% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-3725 Chatness 2.5.3 - '/options.php/save.php' Remote Code Execution · webapps · 2007-04-12

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.010.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • secunia.com /advisories/24873 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
  • vupen.com /english/advisories/2007/1386 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, x_transferred
  • securityreason.com /securityalert/2595 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, x_transferred

Sources

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