Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-2149. PoCs published by Gammarays.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages an authentication bypass and arbitrary file write vulnerability in Chatness <= 2.5.3 to extract admin credentials and deploy a PHP shell. It first fetches the admin username and password from /admin/options.php, logs in, and then overwrites head.html with malicious PHP code via /admin/save.php.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages an authentication bypass and arbitrary file write vulnerability in Chatness <= 2.5.3 to extract admin credentials and deploy a PHP shell. It first fetches the admin username and password from /admin/options.php, logs in, and then overwrites head.html with malicious PHP code via /admin/save.php.