Vulnerability in Sitenews

CVE-2002-0286

The GetPassword function in function.php of SiteNews 0.10 and 0.11 allows remote attackers to gain privileges and add users by providing a non-existent user name and the MD5 checksum for an empty password to add_user.php, which causes GetPassword to produce and compare a blank password for the non-existent user.

EPSS: 0.016 (72.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Sitenews — versions 0.01_beta, 0.02_beta, 0.03_beta
  • N/a — versions n/a

References