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CVE-2009-4173

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4173 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews versions before 8b. This flaw allows remote attackers to hijack administrator authentication to create new users, including new administrators, through the adduser action. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), indicating that an attacker can exploit it remotely with medium complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While no active exploitation is noted, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cutephp:cutenews:1.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33344 · Nov 10, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54240
morningstarsecurity.com / advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/36971
Exploit