CVE-2007-2149

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2007-2149 · Published 19/04/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-2149 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting chatness (stephen craton).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chatness stephen_craton	`≤ 2.5.3`	No fix yet

Description

Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier stores usernames and unencrypted passwords in (1) classes/vars.php and (2) classes/varstuff.php, and recommends 0666 or 0777 permissions for these files, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the files, and allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a direct request for admin/options.php.

References

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