Alanaktion phproject up to 1.8.2 /issues/new/ planned_hours cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Alanaktion phproject up to 1.8.2. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file /issues/new/. This manipulation of the argument planned_hours causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-57768. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Alanaktion phproject up to 1.8.2. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /issues/new/. The manipulation of the argument planned_hours with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Phproject is a high performance full-featured project management system. From 1.8.0 to before 1.8.3, a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Planned Hours field when creating a new project. When sending a POST request to /issues/new/, the value provided in the Planned Hours field is included in the server response without any HTML encoding or sanitization. Because of this, an attacker can craft a malicious payload such as alert(1) and include it in the planned_hours parameter. The server reflects the input directly in the HTML of the project creation page, causing the browser to interpret and execute it. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.3.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-57768 since 08/19/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. 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.

Upgrading to version 1.8.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Project Management Software

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• Alanaktion

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• phproject

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• 1.8.0
• 1.8.1
• 1.8.2

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• Product: https://github.com/Alanaktion/phproject/

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