Vulnerability in Stephen Craton Chatness

CVE-2007-2149

Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier stores usernames and unencrypted passwords in (1) classes/vars.php and (2) classes/varstuff.php, and recommends 0666 or 0777 permissions for these files, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the files, and allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a direct request for admin/options.php.

EPSS: 0.031 (86.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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