CVE-2009-4250

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54237

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54224

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54223

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54222

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54221

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-12-10

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05508