MySimpleNews Remotely Readable Administrator Password Vulnerability

BID:5866

Info

MySimpleNews Remotely Readable Administrator Password Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5866
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 02 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 02 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery credited to Frog Man <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: MySimpleNews MySimpleNews 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

MySimpleNews Remotely Readable Administrator Password Vulnerability

MySimpleNews stores the administrative password in clear text in a remotely viewable HTML file.

Any remote user can view the contents of the HTML file to determine the administrator password.

Exploit / POC

MySimpleNews Remotely Readable Administrator Password Vulnerability

The administrator password can be found in the HTML code for admin.html below:
moncode = prompt('MySimpleNews - Administration','');
if (moncode != "[ADMINPASSWORD]")
{
location.href="about:Erreur 403";
}

References

MySimpleNews Remotely Readable Administrator Password Vulnerability

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