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CVE-2002-2249

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2249 describes a remote file inclusion vulnerability in News Evolution versions 1.0 and 2.0. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands by manipulating the 'neurl' parameter in backend.php, screen.php, or admin/modules/comment.php. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its low attack complexity and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public exploit is available on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php_evolution:news_evolution:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php_evolution:news_evolution:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22048 · Nov 26, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0231 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/10709
securityfocus.com / bid/6260
Exploit