Vulnerability record · CVE-2000-0720 · published 20 October 2000
CVE-2000-0720: Gwscripts news publisher vulnerability
GGwscripts · Gwscripts News Publisher
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.
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.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Affected products
1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2000-0720), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.
