CVE-2002-0491

admin.php in AlGuest 1.0 guestbook checks for the existence of the admin cookie to authenticate the AlGuest administrator, which allows remote attackers to bypass the authentication and gain privileges by setting the admin cookie to an arbitrary value...

CVE-2002-0491

The CVE-2002-0491 entry concerns AlGuest 1.0 guestbook’s admin.php authentication, which incorrectly relies on the existence of an admin cookie. An attacker can set the admin cookie to an arbitrary value, bypassing authentication and gaining administrative privileges. The vulnerability is web‑acc...