CVE-2006-5716: Freenews

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in aff_news.php in FreeNews 2.1 allows remote attackers to include local files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the chemin parameter, when the aff_news parameter is not set to "1."

Affected products

• Freenews Freenews: version 2.1 only

Published 2006-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.