cve/cves/2002/CVE-2002-1656.md

### [CVE-2002-1656](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1656)
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### Description

X-News (x_news) 1.1 and earlier allows attackers to authenticate as other users by obtaining the MD5 checksum of the password, e.g. via sniffing or the users.txt data file, and providing it in a cookie.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.

#### ExploitDB
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3043