XSS in Cutephp Cutenews
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 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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (80.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Cutephp Cutenews — versions 1.4.6
- Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews — versions 2, 3, 4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54237 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54224 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54222 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54221 (vdb-entry)
- www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54223 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971 (Exploit, vdb-entry)