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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2000-0688 json

Subscribe Me LITE does not properly authenticate attempts to change the administrator password, which allows remote attackers to gain privi…

published 2000-09-21 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0684

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.8%
EPSS 7.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Subscribe Me LITE does not properly authenticate attempts to change the administrator password, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges for the Account Manager by directly calling the subscribe.pl script with the setpwd parameter.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20177)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20177 CGI Script Center Subscribe Me Lite 2.0 - Administrative Password Alteration (2) remote, 2000-08-23
  • EDB-20176 CGI Script Center Subscribe Me Lite 2.0 - Administrative Password Alteration (1) remote, 2000-08-23
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1607 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0292.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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