CVE-2010-5065 describes an access control bypass vulnerability in Virtual War (VWar) 1.6.1 R2, specifically within the popup.php component. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by manipulating the newsid parameter in a printnews action to read news posts that should be restricted to members. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and potential for unauthorized information disclosure (confidentiality impact), but no integrity or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vwar:virtual_war:1.6.1:r2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.