CVE-2007-6496

Exp

Hosting Controller 6.1 Hot fix 3.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to register arbitrary users via a request to hosting/addsubsite.asp with the loginname and password parameters set, when preceded by certain requests to hosting/default.asp and hosting/selectdomain.asp, a related issue to CVE-2005-1654.

Published: 2007-12-20 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-6496 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.57%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-6496

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
4730 exploit_db edb 2007-12-13 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-6496

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 2025-11-26 1.41% 1.57% +0.16%
2 2025-10-04 1.32% 1.41% +0.09%
3 2025-03-30 1.32%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-6496

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-6496

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-6496

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
hosting_controller hosting_controller 6.1_hotfix_3.3 cpe:2.3:a:hosting_controller:hosting_controller:6.1_hotfix_3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-6496

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