CVE-2006-4767: Stefan Ernst Newsscript

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Stefan Ernst Newsscript (aka WM-News) 0.5beta allow remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the ide parameter in modify.php and (2) write to arbitrary local files via a .. sequence in the var parameter in add_go.php. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Stefan Ernst Newsscript: version 0.5_beta only

Published 2006-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.