CVE-2008-7172: Yanick Bourbeau Lightweight News Portal

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via direct requests to admin.php with the (1) potd_delete, (2) potd, (3) vote_update, (4) vote, or (5) modifynews actions.

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Published 2009-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.