CVE-2007-2554 describes a critical vulnerability in Associated Press (AP) Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier, where the MySQL root account is configured with a default blank password. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit the shows.tblscript component to insert or modify news articles, posing a significant risk to data integrity. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of integrity without requiring any authentication. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:associated_press:newspower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
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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.