CVE-2009-4250

Exp

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.

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-2009-4250 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.77%, 93th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +5.45% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-4250

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
10002 exploit_db edb 2009-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗
33343 exploit_db edb 2009-11-10 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4250

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 2026-05-08 5.32% 10.77% +5.45%
2 2025-08-26 5.89% 5.32% -0.57%
3 2025-03-31 — 5.89% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4250

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-4250

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4250

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 2 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 3 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 4 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 5 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 6 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
korn19 utf-8_cutenews 7 cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4250

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