CVE-2009-4250: Cutephp Cutenews

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cutephp Cutenews: version 1.4.6 only
• KORN19 Utf-8 Cutenews: up to and including 8; version 2 only; version 3 only; version 4 only; version 5 only; version 6 only; …

Published 2009-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.