X-News Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1656

X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5 checksum of the password, e.g. via sniffing or the users.txt data file, and providing it in a cookie.

CVE-2002-2046

x_news.php in X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges by stealing and replaying the md5_password cookie.