CVE-2024-12933
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 vulnerability was found in code-projects Simple Admin Panel 1.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file updateItemController.php. The manipulation of the argument p_name/p_desc leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely.
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 · moderate confidenceA stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the updateItemController.php file of Simple Admin Panel 1.0. Remote attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the p_name or p_desc parameters, which are not properly sanitized before being rendered in HTML output.
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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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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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Identify the Simple Admin Panel installationLocate the web application's root directory and check for updateItemController.php file, typically found in the /admin/, /controller/, or root directories of the Simple Admin Panel 1.0 installationAffected if The file updateItemController.php exists in the application directory tree
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Verify the vulnerable parameters are handledExamine the source code of updateItemController.php and search for occurrences of $_POST['p_name'] or $_GET['p_name'] and similarly $_POST['p_desc'] or $_GET['p_desc'] to confirm the application accepts these parametersAffected if The code processes p_name or p_desc parameters from user input without sanitization
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Check for output encoding on user-supplied dataSearch the application code for the vulnerable parameters being rendered in HTML (echo, print, or similar output functions) and verify whether htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities(), or equivalent encoding functions are applied before outputAffected if The p_name or p_desc values are echoed to HTML output without being passed through htmlspecialchars() or equivalent encoding
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Confirm the stored XSS sink existsIdentify where the sanitized (or unsanitized) p_name and p_desc values are stored in the database and subsequently displayed in admin pages or item listings - check for SQL INSERT/UPDATE operations followed by SELECT and display logicAffected if User-supplied p_name or p_desc values are stored in the database and displayed in web pages without proper output encoding
A user is affected if the Simple Admin Panel 1.0 is deployed and the updateItemController.php file processes p_name or p_desc parameters without applying output encoding (such as htmlspecialchars()) before rendering them in HTML pages.
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 input validation and output encoding for the p_name and p_desc parameters. Use a vetted XSS prevention library or built-in PHP functions like htmlspecialchars() with appropriate character encoding when rendering user-supplied data.
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