CVE-2004-1703
Fusion News 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to add user accounts, if the administrator is logged in, via a comment that contains an img…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Fusion News 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to add user accounts, if the administrator is logged in, via a comment that contains an img bbcode tag that calls index.php with the signup action, which is executed when the administrator's browser loads the page with the img tag.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Fusionphp Fusion News 3.3/3.6 - Administrator Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24341webapps, phppublished 30 Jul 2004Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 20% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 20040729 Fusion News Yet Another Unauthorized Account Addition Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 10836 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1010829 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- fusion-news-add-account(16853) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-1697 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2004-1703)Record last updated .