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CVE-2009-4172 (GCVE-0-2009-4172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-02 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
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Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews 8 and 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the body of a news article in an addnews action.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2009-11-10 00:00
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