CVE-2009-4172 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews 8 and 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the body of a news article in an addnews action.

Published: 2009-12-02

Score: 2.6 Low

EPSS: 3.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:cutephp:cutenews:1.4.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:8:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:8b:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-4142	Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews 8 and 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the body of a news article in an addnews action.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03393.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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/54225

History

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Subscriptions

Cutephp Cutenews

Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-12-02T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:54:09.782Z

Reserved: 2009-12-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-4172

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-12-02T19:30:00.267

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-4172

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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