CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2149

10.0 HIGH Published 2007-04-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• stephen craton chatness (<= 2.5.3)

References