# CVE-2009-4250: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allow remote attackers to inject

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2009-12-10 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54237
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54224
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54222
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54221
- http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54223
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33343
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10002

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