A vulnerability was found in Cutephp CuteNews 0.88/1.3/1.3.1/1.3.2/1.3.6 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument mod with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in CuteNews allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the mod parameter to index.php.

The weakness was released 09/21/2005 (Website). The advisory is available at securitytracker.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-3009 since 09/21/2005. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 26367.

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• Content Management System

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• Cutephp

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• CuteNews

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• 0.88
• 1.3
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.6

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• free

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