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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2004-1659 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in CuteNews 1.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers with Administrator, Editor, Jou…

published 2004-09-02 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-1653

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in CuteNews 1.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers with Administrator, Editor, Journalist or Commenter privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the mod parameter.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24566)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24566 CuteNews 0.88/1.3.x - 'index.php' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2004-09-02
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11097 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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