CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0720

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• gwscripts gwscripts news publisher 1.05 • gwscripts gwscripts news publisher 1.05a • gwscripts gwscripts news publisher 1.05b • gwscripts gwscripts news publisher 1.06

References