CVE-2007-0261 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in sNews 1.5.30 and earlier, where the application fails to properly exit upon authentication failure. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to perform unauthorized administrative actions, such as changing administrative passwords and uploading malicious PHP code. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability presents a severe risk of complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability). While not listed on CISA KEV, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, indicating a high potential for exploitation, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5.29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:snews:snews:1.5.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.5.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:snews:snews:1.5.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.