CVE-2004-1573: Aj-Fork

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The documentation for AJ-Fork 167 implies that users should set permissions for users.db.php to 777, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PHP code and gain privileges as the administrator.

Affected products

• Aj-Fork Aj-Fork: version 167 only
• Cutephp Cutenews: version 0.88 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.6 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.