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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-4767

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Stefan Ernst Newsscript (aka WM-News) 0.5beta allow remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary local files via a ..

MEDIUM 6.4EPSS 1.60%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.60%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Stefan Ernst Newsscript (aka WM-News) 0.5beta allow remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the ide parameter in modify.php and (2) write to arbitrary local files via a .. sequence in the var parameter in add_go.php. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information.

CVSS 2.0
6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS
1.60% probability · 76th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
stefan ernst/newsscript
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.60%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.