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CVE-2001-1525

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the comments action in easyNews 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify news.dat, template.dat and possibly other files via a ".." in the cid parameter.

Affected products

• Easyscripts Easynews: 1.5

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0000.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7657.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3643
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0000.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7657.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3643

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