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CVE-2007-2554
Associated Press (AP) Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier uses a default blank password for the MySQL root account, which allows remote attackers…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Associated Press (AP) Newspower 4.0.1 and earlier uses a default blank password for the MySQL root account, which allows remote attackers to insert or modify news articles via shows.tblscript.
Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 36251 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 2679 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20070508 AP Newspower software <=4.0.1 allows remote data manipulation (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-2007-2547 (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-2007-2554)Record last updated .