CVE-2009-4173

Exp

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.

Published: 2009-12-02 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-4173 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.47%). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-4173

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
10002 exploit_db edb 2009-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗
33344 exploit_db edb 2009-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4173

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-07 0.17% 0.47% +0.30%
2 2025-03-17 0.98% 0.17% -0.81%
3 2024-07-12 — 0.98% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4173

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-4173

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4173

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cutephp cutenews 1.4.6 cpe:2.3:a:cutephp:cutenews:1.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 8 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4173

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