source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971/info CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews are prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, information-disclosure, arbitrary-script-injection, and security-bypass issues. Note that exploits for some of the issues may require administrator privilege. Successful exploits may allow attackers to: - obtain sensitive information - gain unauthorized access to the affected application - run arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site - hijack user sessions - execute arbitrary commands in the context of the webserver process A successful attack will compromise the application and may aid in further attacks. http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/search.php?user=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/search.php?title=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E