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NOTE: this can be leveraged to upload and possibly execute arbitrary files via config.inc.php in the ImageManager plugin.","severity":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.03262,"percentile":0.8846,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-264"],"published":"2010-05-12T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-06-16T23:19:35Z","products":[{"vendor":"s9y","product":"serendipity"},{"vendor":"xinha","product":"wysiwyg_editor"}],"references":[{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591701","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1401","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_VUPEN","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.php-security.org/2010/05/10/mops-2010-020-xinha-wysiwyg-plugin-configuration-injection-vulnerability/index.html","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit"]},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/40124","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/39782","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_refsource_SECUNIA","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40033","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/1518","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042577.html","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_FEDORA","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.php-security.org/2010/05/10/mops-2010-019-serendipity-wysiwyg-editor-plugin-configuration-injection-vulnerability/index.html","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1916"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w8pf-76j7-6h39"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2010-1916","description":"The dynamic configuration feature in Xinha WYSIWYG editor 0.96 Beta 2 and earlier, as used in Serendipity 1.5.2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and modify the configuration of arbitrary plugins via (1) crafted backend_config_secret_key_location and backend_config_hash parameters that are used in a SHA1 hash of a shared secret that can be known or externally influenced, which are not properly handled by the \"Deprecated config passing\" feature; or (2) crafted backend_data and backend_data[key_location] variables, which are not properly handled by the xinha_read_passed_data function.  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