CVE-2000-0720 Information

Description

news.cgi in GWScripts News Publisher does not properly authenticate requests to add an author to the author index which allows remote attackers to add new authors by directly posting an HTTP request to the new.cgi program with an addAuthor parameter and setting the Referer to the news.cgi program.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1621 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=003301c0123b$18f8c1a0$953b29d4@e8s9s4 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5169