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CVE-2009-4250

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4250 describes multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities affecting CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b, as well as Korn19 versions. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various parameters in register.php, search.php, and index.php, including news comments. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and potential for partial integrity impact. While some vulnerabilities require specific server configurations (register_globals enabled or magic_quotes_gpc disabled), exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:korn19:utf-8_cutenews:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33343 · Nov 10, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0198 is in the 63rd 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/54221
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54222
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54223
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54224
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54237
morningstarsecurity.com / advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/36971
Exploit