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CVE-2008-7172

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2009-09-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via direct requests to admin.php with the (1) potd_delete, (2) potd, (3) vote_update, (4) vote, or (5) modifynews actions.

Affected Platforms

Yanick Bourbeau Lightweight News Portal

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References