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

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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

Published Apr 19, 2007

10.0

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.09%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.09% 0.03088

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03088

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (14 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.09% (0.03088)	87.26th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.09% (0.03088)	85.96th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.94% (0.00944)	74.70th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.45% (0.00454)	76.02th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 21, 2024	0.43% (0.00425)	73.70th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.39% (0.00388)	72.49th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 14, 2024	0.39% (0.00388)	70.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 7, 2023	0.37% (0.00368)	69.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 30, 2023	0.36% (0.00358)	69.02th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.34% (0.00340)	66.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://secunia.com/advisories/24873
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2595
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1386
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/24873		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2595		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465547/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1386		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 19, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Apr 19, 2007

Link CVE-2007-2149

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-2149

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-2149