Easy Content Management Publishing stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote at…

published 2009-03-20 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-6463

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.2%; EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

Easy Content Management Publishing stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for Database/News.mdb.

Timeline

2008-12-04 First public exploit (EDB-7340)
2009-03-20 Published

Exploit prediction

2.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-7340 Easy News Content Management - Database Disclosure webapps, 2008-12-04

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/7340
exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/49392
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2008-6493
NVD CVE-2008-6493

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Summary