PT-2005-1688 · Cutenews · Cutenews

Published 2005-03-04 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-2005-0645

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cuteNews version 1.3.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML, web script, and PHP code via the CLIENT-IP or X-FORWARDED-FOR header in an HTTP POST request to "show news.php". This is a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue.

Recommendations For cuteNews version 1.3.6, consider restricting access to the show news.php endpoint until a patch is available, and avoid using the CLIENT-IP or X-FORWARDED-FOR header in HTTP POST requests to this endpoint.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0645

Affected Products

Cutenews

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0645 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110969774502370&w=2 · Note
• http://kernelpanik.org/docs/kernelpanik/cutenews.txt · Note