Vulnerability · Published Sep 29, 2023 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2023-5286SourceCodester Expense Tracker App Category add_category.php cross site scripting

Low 3.5

In plain English

A low-severity cross-site scripting in Expense Tracker App from SourceCodester. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)3.5Low

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 57.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in SourceCodester Expense Tracker App v1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file add_category.php of the component Category Handler. The manipulation of the argument category_name leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-240914 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
SourceCodester	Expense Tracker App	v1

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.240914 vdb-entry, technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.240914 signature, permissions-required
https://github.com/xcodeOn1/XSS-Stored-Expense-Tracker-App exploit