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CVE-2009-4173 (GCVE-0-2009-4173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-02 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2009-11-10 00:00
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