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CVE-2009-4250

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

• CutePHP.com CuteNews: 1.4.6
• Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews: through 8; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

References

• http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54221
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54222
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54223
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54224
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54237
• http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54221

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