CVE-2009-4173 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions to create new admin users via CSRF in CuteNews.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-4173?
CVE-2009-4173 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Dec 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4173?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cutephp Cutenews, Korn19 Utf-8 Cutenews.
How do I fix CVE-2009-4173?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4173 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2009-4173 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-4173 exists.
Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4c74-f2vw-7934.