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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2149
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-2149

Description:
Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier stores usernames and unencrypted passwords in (1) classes/vars.php and (2) classes/varstuff.php, and recommends 0666 or 0777 permissions for these files, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the files, and allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a direct request for admin/options.php.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2595

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA24873

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded


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