CVE-2007-4861

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

SAXON 5.4, with display_errors enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via (1) a direct request for news.php, (2) an invalid use of a newsid array parameter to admin/edit-item.php, and possibly unspecified vectors related to additional scripts in (3) admin/, (4) rss/, and (5) the root directory of the installation, which reveal the path in various error messages.

Affected products

Quirm Saxon: 5.4

References

http://osvdb.org/45330
http://osvdb.org/45331
http://osvdb.org/45332
http://osvdb.org/45333
http://osvdb.org/45334
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3311
http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0053
http://www.quirm.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=129
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482930/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38138
http://osvdb.org/45330
http://osvdb.org/45331

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