CVE-2002-0286: Sitenews

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The GetPassword function in function.php of SiteNews 0.10 and 0.11 allows remote attackers to gain privileges and add users by providing a non-existent user name and the MD5 checksum for an empty password to add_user.php, which causes GetPassword to produce and compare a blank password for the non-existent user.

Affected products

• Sitenews Sitenews: version 0.01_beta only; version 0.02_beta only; version 0.03_beta only; version 0.04_beta only; version 0.05_beta only; version 0.06_beta only; …

Published 2002-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.