CVE-2002-1656: Xqus X-News

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5 checksum of the password, e.g. via sniffing or the users.txt data file, and providing it in a cookie.

Affected products

• Xqus X-News: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.