CVE-2010-2859: Boesch-It Simpnews

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

news.php in SimpNews 2.47.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid lang parameter, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

Affected products

• Boesch-It Simpnews: up to and including 2.47.03; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.13 only; version 2.30 only; version 2.30.2 only; version 2.30.6 only; …

Published 2010-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.