CVE-2007-6662: Cutephp Cutenews

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in file.php in CuteNews 2.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading the admin username and password hash in data/users.db.php.

Affected products

• Cutephp Cutenews: version 2.6 only

Published 2008-01-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.