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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2007-5816

Medium
5/10

Summary

dialog.php in CONTENTCustomizer 3.1mp and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive author credentials by making a request with an editauthor action, then reading the value of the newlocalpassword password input field in the HTML source of the resulting page.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published