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.
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Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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Title Unescaped Referer Header Enables XSS in CuteNews v2.1.2

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}


Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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Title Unescaped Referer Header Enables XSS in CuteNews v2.1.2
Weaknesses CWE-79

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-22T15:42:26.961Z

Reserved: 2026-04-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-36470

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-21T16:17:07.970

Modified: 2026-09-22T20:00:03.713

Link: CVE-2026-36470

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-22T18:00:17Z

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