CVE-2007-2554: Associated Press Newspower

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Associated Press (AP) Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier uses a default blank password for the MySQL root account, which allows remote attackers to insert or modify news articles via shows.tblscript.

Affected products

• Associated Press Newspower: up to and including 4.0.1

Published 2007-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.