CVE-2009-4173
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote attackers to hijack…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 10002webapps, phppublished 10 Nov 2009Verified
- CuteNews 1.4.6 - 'index.php' Cross-Site Request Forgery (New User Creation) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33344webapps, phppublished 10 Nov 2009Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References4
- http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- cutenews-index-csrf(54240) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20091110 [MORNINGSTAR-2009-02] Multiple security issues in Cute News and UTF-8 Cute News (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 36971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-4143 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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