CVE-2009-4173: Cutephp Cutenews

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Cutephp Cutenews: version 1.4.6 only
• KORN19 Utf-8 Cutenews: version 8 only

Published 2009-12-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.