CVE-2009-4113 — Static code injection vulnerability in the Categories module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote authenticated users with application administrative privileges to inject arbitrary PHP code into data/category.db.php via the Category Access field

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Static code injection vulnerability in the Categories module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote authenticated users with application administrative privileges to inject arbitrary PHP code into data/category.db.php via the Category Access field

Published Nov 30, 2009

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.26%

Description

Static code injection vulnerability in the Categories module in CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.6 and UTF-8 CuteNews before 8b allows remote authenticated users with application administrative privileges to inject arbitrary PHP code into data/category.db.php via the Category Access field.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.26% 0.01260

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01260

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.26% (0.01260)	68.53th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.26% (0.01260)	65.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.48% (0.00478)	62.96th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.31% (0.00313)	71.00th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.31% (0.00313)	69.35th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 18, 2024	0.31% (0.00313)	67.09th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.32% (0.00319)	65.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.06% (0.01061)	52.82th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 19, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	51.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	49.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	28.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-94

Code Injection

References (3)

http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54243
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/advisories/MORNINGSTAR-2009-02-CuteNews.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507782/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54243		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 30, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 30, 2009

Link CVE-2009-4113

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-4113

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-4113