CVE-2004-1796

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in HotNews 0.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the (1) config[header] parameter to hotnews-engine.inc.php3 or (2) config[incdir] parameter to hnmain.inc.php3.

Affected products

Hotnews: 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.6.0_pre, 0.6.1, 0.7.0, 0.7.1 (+1)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/10551
http://securitytracker.com/id?1008608
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=342594
http://www.osvdb.org/3332
http://www.osvdb.org/3405
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/348840
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9357
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14140
http://secunia.com/advisories/10551
http://securitytracker.com/id?1008608
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=342594
http://www.osvdb.org/3332

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