CVE-2023-37745
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Maid Hiring Management System v1.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Page Description of the /admin/aboutus.php component.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceA stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Maid Hiring Management System v1.0 admin panel. The vulnerability is located in the /admin/aboutus.php component where the Page Description field does not properly sanitize user input, allowing attackers to inject malicious JavaScript or HTML code that executes when the aboutus page is rendered.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 1.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Maid Hiring Management System installationLocate the application's web root directory and check for the presence of /admin/aboutus.php or identify the product by searching for known files like index.php with 'Maid Hiring Management System' brandingAffected if The application directory contains aboutus.php in the admin folder and identifies as version 1.0
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Access the admin aboutus pageNavigate to /admin/aboutus.php in a browser or via curl, and authenticate to the admin panel if requiredAffected if The aboutus.php page loads and displays a form with a Page Description field or displays stored content
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Inspect the Page Description field for unsanitized outputView the page source (right-click > View Page Source) and look for the Page Description content rendered without encoding (check for unescaped <, >, " characters in script tags or event handlers)Affected if The Page Description field content is rendered as raw HTML/JavaScript without proper escaping or encoding
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Check for existing malicious payloads in the Page DescriptionExamine the HTML source of the rendered aboutus page and look for suspicious patterns like <script>, javascript:, onerror=, onload=, or iframe tags within the Page Description outputAffected if The rendered output contains any script tags, event handlers (onmouseover, onerror, etc.), or iframe elements that were not intentionally added by the administrator
You are affected if the Maid Hiring Management System v1.0 is installed and the /admin/aboutus.php page renders the Page Description field content without HTML encoding, allowing stored XSS payloads to execute.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement proper input validation and output encoding on the Page Description field in aboutus.php, using context-aware escaping functions and/or a web application firewall for defense-in-depth.
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