CVE-2009-4250
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allow remote attackers to…
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Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the result parameter to register.php; (2) the user parameter to search.php; the (3) cat_msg, (4) source_msg, (5) postponed_selected, (6) unapproved_selected, and (7) news_per_page parameters in a list action to the editnews module of index.php; and (8) the link tag in news comments. NOTE: some of the vulnerabilities require register_globals to be enabled and/or magic_quotes_gpc to be disabled.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- cutenews-title-xss(54237) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- cutenews-newscomments-xss(54224) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- cutenews-search-xss(54222) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- cutenews-register-xss(54221) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20091110 [MORNINGSTAR-2009-02] Multiple security issues in Cute News and UTF-8 Cute News (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- cutenews-editnews-xss(54223) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 36971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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