{
    "id": "CVE-2009-4173",
    "published": "2009-12-02 19:30:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 23:13:10",
    "cvss_score": "6.8",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "cwe": "CWE-352",
    "description": "Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users, including a new administrator, via an adduser action in the editusers module in index.php.",
    "epss_score": "0.01026",
    "epss_percentile": "0.62604",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-11 18:17:08",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "cutephp",
            "product": "cutenews"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "korn19",
            "product": "utf-8_cutenews"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "10002",
            "title": "CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews - Multiple Vulnerabilities",
            "date": "2009-11-10",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10002"
        },
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "33344",
            "title": "CuteNews 1.4.6 - 'index.php' Cross-Site Request Forgery (New User Creation)",
            "date": "2009-11-10",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33344"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "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/54240",
        "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/54240"
    ]
}