CVE-2007-2149

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.

Date published : 2007-04-19

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded

http://secunia.com/advisories/24873