Published: 20/10/2000 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 505

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

news.cgi in GWScripts News Publisher does not properly authenticate requests to add an author to the author index, which allows remote malicious users 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.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1621/info It is possible for a remote user to add an author to the author index (authorfile) in GWScripts News Publisher, a web news publisher This can be done by requesting the following raw HTTP request using any arbitrary username and password: POST /cgi-bin/news/newscgi?addAuthor HTTP/10 Connection ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1621 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5169 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=003301c0123b%2418f8c1a0%24953b29d4%40e8s9s4 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20183/

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