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CVE-2010-2859

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2859 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in SimpNews versions 2.47.3 and earlier, specifically within the news.php component. An attacker can exploit this by providing an invalid 'lang' parameter, causing an error message that reveals the full installation path of the application. This vulnerability has a CVSS v2 score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve partial confidentiality impact, but without affecting integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.47.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boesch-it:simpnews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boesch-it:simpnews:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boesch-it:simpnews:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boesch-it:simpnews:2.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.30.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:boesch-it:simpnews:2.30.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0118 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.org / 1007-exploits/simpnews-xss.txt
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/512271/100/0/threaded