CVE-2008-7172 — Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via direct requests to admin.php with the (1) potd_delete, (2) potd, (3) vote_update, (4) vote, or (5) modifynews actions

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Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via direct requests to admin.php with the (1) potd_delete, (2) potd, (3) vote_update, (4) vote, or (5) modifynews actions

Published Sep 8, 2009

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.29%

Description

Lightweight news portal (LNP) 1.0b does not properly restrict access to administrator functionality, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via direct requests to admin.php with the (1) potd_delete, (2) potd, (3) vote_update, (4) vote, or (5) modifynews actions.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.29% 0.02287

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

EPSS probability 0.02287

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.29% (0.02287)	82.57th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.29% (0.02287)	80.87th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Dec 7, 2025	3.12% (0.03121)	86.37th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.52% (0.01519)	79.96th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.55% (0.00546)	78.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.55% (0.00546)	76.72th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.55% (0.00546)	73.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29848
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43225
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5873
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29848		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43225		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5873		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 8, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Sep 7, 2009

Link CVE-2008-7172

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-7172

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-7172