CVE-2009-4249

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6, when register_globals is enabled and magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) lastusername and (2) mod parameters to index.php; and (3) the title parameter to search.php.

Published: 2009-12-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-4249 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.89%). 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-2009-4249

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
10002 exploit_db edb 2009-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗
33342 exploit_db edb 2009-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4249

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 2026-06-15 10.98% 1.89% -9.10%
2 2026-05-09 3.42% 10.98% +7.57%
3 2025-08-27 — 3.42% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4249

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 4.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-4249

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4249

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cutephp cutenews 1.4.6 cpe:2.3:a:cutephp:cutenews:1.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4249

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