Detections
Analytics

NewsScript Content Management Admin Authentication Bypass

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2687

Synopsis

The remote host is running an inherently insecure protocol or application.

Description

The remote host is running the NewsScript.co.uk news content management system. NewsScript is a perl script that manages news items and present them in an HTML format. There have been flaws in previous versions of NewsScript. You should manually check whether or not the application is vulnerable.

Solution

No solution is known at this time.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?85aba152

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 2687

Family: CGI

Published: 3/9/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 17309

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:newsscript.co.uk:newsscript

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0735

BID: 12761