CVE-2007-6662

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in file.php in CuteNews 2.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading the admin username and password hash in data/users.db.php.

Affected products

CutePHP.com CuteNews: 2.6

References

http://osvdb.org/39885
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3515
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485632/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39328
http://osvdb.org/39885
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3515
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485632/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39328

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