CVE-2009-4113 Code injection in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Authenticated administrators can inject arbitrary PHP code into CuteNews via the Category Access field, leading to remote code execution.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2009-4113?

CVE-2009-4113 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Nov 2009. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Static code injection vulnerability in the Categories module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote authenticated users with application administrative privileges to inject arbitrary PHP code into data/category.db.php via the Category Access field.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4113?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Cutephp Cutenews, Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews.

How do I fix CVE-2009-4113?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4113 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2009-4113 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-4113 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-9mhc-c22m-9frj.

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