Newsscript 1.0 - Administrative Privilege Escalation

Author: Peter Winter-Smith
type: webapps
platform: php
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date_added: 2003-05-27
date_updated: 2012-11-13
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7705/info

A vulnerability has been reported that could enable a member of the news system to create and access an administrative account. This is due to insufficient validation of data supplied to account editing input fields of Newsscript.

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