A vulnerability was found in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 (Knowledge Base Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file admin/header.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Reflected). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The way URIs are handled in admin/header.php in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows Reflected XSS (injecting arbitrary web script or HTML) in admin/edit-category.php by adding a question mark (?) followed by the payload.

The weakness was disclosed 03/12/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-10402 since 03/12/2020. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

By approaching the search of inurl:admin/header.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Knowledge Base Software

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• Chadha

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• PHPKB Standard Multi-Language

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• 9

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