Vulnerability CVE-2009-4173
Published: 2009-12-02   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Cute News and UTF-8 Cute News - Multiple Security Issues
Andrew Horton
03.12.2009

Type:

CWE-352

 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Korn19 -> Utf-8 cutenews 
Cutephp -> Cutenews 

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