CVE-2006-6888: P-News

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

P-News 1.16 and 1.17 store sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain the administrative account name and password hash via a direct request for db/user.dat.

Affected products

• P-News P-News: version 1.16 only; version 1.17 only

Published 2006-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.