A vulnerability was found in Easyscripts Easynews 1.5. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file settings.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability (Password). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

easyNews 1.5 and earlier stores administration passwords in cleartext in settings.php, which allows local users to obtain the passwords and gain access.

The weakness was released 12/31/2001 (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-1527 since 07/14/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1600 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

By approaching the search of inurl:settings.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (7659). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 17844 and 17845.

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• 1.5

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