CVE-2016-2296

critical

Published 2016-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Meteocontrol WEB'log Basic 100, Light, Pro, and Pro Unlimited does not require authentication for "post-admin" login pages, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or modify data via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

95%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/meteocontrol_weblog_extractadmin rank 300

Meteocontrol WEBlog Password Extractor

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
meteocontrol	web\'log_basic_100	`-`
meteocontrol	web\'log_light	`-`
meteocontrol	web\'log_pro	`-`
meteocontrol	web\'log_pro_unlimited	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.