Vulnerability CVE-2000-0720
Published: 2000-10-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gwscripts -> Gwscripts news publisher 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1621
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=003301c0123b$18f8c1a0$953b29d4@e8s9s4
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5169
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