CVE-2007-2149 Information

Description

Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier stores usernames and unencrypted passwords in (1) classes/vars.php and (2) classes/varstuff.php and recommends 0666 or 0777 permissions for these files which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the files and allows remote attackers to obtain credentials via a direct request for admin/options.php.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/24873 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2595 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1386