admin/options.php in Stephen Craton (aka WiredPHP) Chatness 2.5.3 and earlier does not check for administrative credentials, which allows remote attackers to read and modify the classes/vars.php and classes/varstuff.php configuration files via direct requests.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-2147 is rated High Exploit Risk (86.6/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.62%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3725 | exploit_db | edb | 2007-04-12 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-12-06 | 4.08% | 4.62% | +0.54% |
| 2 | 2025-12-02 | 3.41% | 4.08% | +0.66% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 3.41% | — |
Full EPSS history (13 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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10.0 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| stephen_craton | chatness | <= 2.5.3 | cpe:2.3:a:stephen_craton:chatness:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |