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.
References2
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.8
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 13 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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