CVE-2007-1042 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2007-1042

Directory traversal vulnerability in news.php in Xpression News (X-News) 1.0.1,...

Vulnerability Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in news.php in Xpression News (X-News) 1.0.1, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files or obtain sensitive information via a .. (dot dot) in the xnews-template parameter. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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CVE-2007-1040
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High 7.5

Affected Vendor

xpression news

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Affected Software

xpression news
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.1

Timeline

Official Publish: February 21st, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.