CVE-2004-1847
News Manager Lite 2.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the ADMIN parameter in…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
News Manager Lite 2.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges by setting the ADMIN parameter in the NEWS_LOGIN cookie.
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
- Expinion.net News Manager Lite 2.5 - 'NEWS_LOGIN?admin' Cookie Authentication Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23863webapps, asppublished 20 Mar 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
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 | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 11180 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 9935 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1009507 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- news-manager-admin-access(15550) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20040322 Vulnerabilities in News Manager Lite 2.5 & News Manager Lite administration (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2004-1840 (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-2004-1847)Record last updated .