CVE-2007-4873: Simplenews

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SimpNews 2.41.03 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download arbitrary .inc files via a direct request, as demonstrated by admin/includes/dbtables.inc.

Affected products

Published 2007-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.