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CVE-2026-36468

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in index.php in CuteNews v.2.1.2 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to supply an arbitrarily named URL parameter key, with part of its name containing any URL-encoded common XSS payload (such as…

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 0.34%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in index.php in CuteNews v.2.1.2 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to supply an arbitrarily named URL parameter key, with part of its name containing any URL-encoded common XSS payload (such as "><script>alert(1)</script>).

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.34% probability · 27th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%22 September 2026: 0.20%26 October 2026: 0.34%22 September 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.2% on 22 September 2026 to 0.3% on 26 October 2026.

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