Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-36470 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-36470 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-36470?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.8, published 21 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- CuteNews 2.1.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-36470?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-36470 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-36470?
- Check whether you run CuteNews at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in index.php where the Referer header value is copied directly into the HTML response without escaping or sanitization. An attacker crafts a malicious Referer header containing JavaScript payloads and tricks a user into making a POST request to index.php (via a crafted link or form). The injected script then executes in the victim's browser with access to session cookies and page context.
Affected products
- CuteNews CuteNews 2.1.2
Timeline
- 2026-09-21: disclosed