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CVE-2000-0720

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CVE-2000-0720

Published: May 7, 2001

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

news.cgi in GWScripts News Publisher does not properly authenticate requests to add an author to the author index, which allows remote attackers to add new authors by directly posting an HTTP request to the new.cgi program with an addAuthor parameter, and setting the Referer to the news.cgi program.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

news-publisher-add-author(5169)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
1621
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
20000829 News Publisher CGI Vulnerability
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ

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