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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-7172 EUVD-2008-7131GHSA-3985-49x3-qw6r

Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain …

Published Sep 8, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via direct requests to admin.php with the (1) potd_delete, (2) potd, (3) vote_update, (4) vote, or (5) modifynews actions.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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