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PaNews Multiple Injection Vulnerabilities
high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2626
Synopsis
The remote host is running a vulnerable version of PaNews, a news management script written in PHP.Description
The remote host is running PaNews, a news management script written in PHP. This version of PaNews is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to convince an unsuspecting user to visit a malicious website. Upon successful exploitation, the attacker would be able to possibly steal credentials or execute browser-side code. The version of PaNews is also reported to be prone to several remote SQL and HTML injection attacks. An attacker exploiting these flaws would be able to potentially modify and view confidential data.Solution
Upgrade or patch according to vendor recommendations.See Also
http://www.kernelpanik.org/docs/kernelpanik/panews.txt
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-03/0006.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 2626
Family: CGI
Published: 2/16/2005
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.3
Temporal Score: 7.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:U/RC:X
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:phparena:panews