$ cve CVE-2009-4250 JSON

CVE-2009-4250 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2% (pctl 80)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	1.98% — more likely to be exploited than 80% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2009-12-10
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
cutephp	cutenews
korn19	utf-8 cutenews

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews - Multiple Vulnerabilities	2009-11-10
exploit-db	CuteNews 1.4.6 - 'result' Cross-Site Scripting	2009-11-10

References

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