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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2009-4174

The editnews module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote authenticated users with Journalist or Editor access to bypass administrative moderation and edit previously submitted articles…

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 6.0EPSS 1.65%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 1.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

The editnews module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote authenticated users with Journalist or Editor access to bypass administrative moderation and edit previously submitted articles via a modified id parameter in a doeditnews action.

CVSS 2.0
6.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
1.65% probability · 76th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 10 November 2009
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-264
Affected
cutephp/cutenews · korn19/utf-8 cutenews
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.65%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-33345source ↗CuteNews 1.4.6 editnews Module - doeditnews Action Admin Moderation Bypassphp · Andrew Hortonwebapps10 November 2009yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.