CVE-2009-0866: Phnews

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pHNews Alpha 1 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for extra/genbackup.php.

Affected products

• Phnews Phnews: version 1 only

Published 2009-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.