CVE-2007-2988

Inout Meta Search Engine vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

7.7%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

A certain admin script in Inout Meta Search Engine sends a redirect to the web browser but does not exit when administrative credentials are missing, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code, as demonstrated by a request to admin/create_engine.php followed by a request to admin/generate_tabs.php.

Affected vendor

Inout Scripts

Affected product

Inout Meta Search Engine

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2007-06-01

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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