CVE-2009-4174
The editnews module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote authenticated…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The editnews module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote authenticated users with Journalist or Editor access to bypass administrative moderation and edit previously submitted articles via a modified id parameter in a doeditnews action.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- CuteNews 1.4.6 editnews Module - doeditnews Action Admin Moderation Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33345webapps, phppublished 10 Nov 2009Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 23% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- cutenews-articles-security-bypass(54236) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2009-4144 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-4174)Record last updated .