CVE-2009-4173

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Published Dec 2, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 1.0% KEV · Not listed

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users, including a new administrator, via an adduser action in the editusers module in index.php.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

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:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-4143	Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users, including a new administrator, via an adduser action in the editusers module in index.php.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 1.0% (1.026% probability within 30 days)

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/54240

History

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Subscriptions

Cutephp Cutenews

Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews

Weaknesses

CWE-352

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 6:54 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Dec 2, 2009, 7:00 PM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 6:54 AM
Reserved: Dec 2, 2009, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 11:13 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Dec 2, 2009, 7:30 PM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 11:13 PM

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