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CVE-2007-2554

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-05-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Associated Press (AP) Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier uses a default blank password for the MySQL root account, which allows remote attackers to insert or modify news articles via shows.tblscript.

Affected products

• Associated Press Newspower: through 4.0.1

References

• http://osvdb.org/36251
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2679
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467962/100/0/threaded
• http://osvdb.org/36251
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2679
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467962/100/0/threaded

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