CVE-2004-1796: Hotnews

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in HotNews 0.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the (1) config[header] parameter to hotnews-engine.inc.php3 or (2) config[incdir] parameter to hnmain.inc.php3.

Affected products

• Hotnews Hotnews: version 0.5.3 only; version 0.6.0 only; version 0.6.0_pre only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.7.0 only; version 0.7.1 only; …

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