CVE-2000-0720

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2000-0720 · Published 20/10/2000 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2000-0720 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting gwscripts news publisher (gwscripts).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.2%, higher than 93.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gwscripts news publisher gwscripts	`= 1.05= 1.05a= 1.05b= 1.06`	No fix yet

Description

news.cgi in GWScripts News Publisher does not properly authenticate requests to add an author to the author index, which allows remote attackers to add new authors by directly posting an HTTP request to the new.cgi program with an addAuthor parameter, and setting the Referer to the news.cgi program.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/1621 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5169

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