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CVE-2008-6664

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2009-04-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

action.php in SH-News 3.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the shuser and shpass cookies to non-zero values.

Affected products

• Yarck Sh-News: 3.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29725
• http://www.shnews.de/change-log
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43123
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5829
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29725
• http://www.shnews.de/change-log
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43123
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5829

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