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CVE-2009-4250

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score
4.3 (v2.0)
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
EPSS score
2.0% (81th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2009-4219)
Published
December 10, 2009
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-4219 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • cutephp / cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews
  • korn19 / utf-8 cutenews

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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