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CVE-2026-36470

CuteNews v.2.1.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in index.php.

MEDIUM 5.8EPSS 0.22%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

CuteNews v.2.1.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in index.php. The value of the "Referer" header is copied into the response HTML unmodified/unescaped during POST messages to index.php.

CVSS 3.1
5.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.22% probability · 13th 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: 0.14%26 October 2026: 0.22%22 September 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.1% on 22 September 2026 to 0.2% 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.