PHPGurukul User Registration & Login and User Management System /search-result.php cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in PHPGurukul User Registration & Login and User Management System 3.2. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /search-result.php. The manipulation of the argument searchkey leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-48279. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul User Registration & Login and User Management System 3.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the file /search-result.php. The manipulation of the argument searchkey with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A HTML Injection vulnerability was found in /search-result.php of PHPGurukul User Registration & Login and User Management System 3.2. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary HTML code via the searchkey parameter in a POST HTTP request.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-48279 since 10/08/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:search-result.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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• PHPGurukul

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• User Registration & Login and User Management System

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• 3.2

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://phpgurukul.com/

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• Submit #XXXXXX: Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X.x Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx (by Spectre)
• Submit #XXXXXX: Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx X.x Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx (by 4m3rr0r)

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