Cups EasyApplication · Ajaysharma

CVE-2024-23867

MEDIUM · 6.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-01-26
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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68/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges

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 · unedited
A vulnerability has been reported in Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory), version 1.0, whereby user-controlled inputs are not sufficiently encoded, resulting in a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via /cupseasylive/statecreate.php, in the stateid parameter. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to send a specially crafted URL to an authenticated user and steal their session cookie credentials.

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 confidence

A stored XSS vulnerability in Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory v1.0 in the stateid parameter of /cupseasylive/statecreate.php allows remote attackers to inject malicious JavaScript through insufficiently encoded user input, potentially leading to session hijacking via stolen cookies from authenticated users.

MitigationImplement input validation and output encoding for the stateid parameter, and set HTTPOnly and Secure flags on session cookies to prevent XSS-based session theft.

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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
Cups EasyApplication
Affected:= 1.0

CVSS 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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Confirm Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory installation
    Identify if the web application Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory v1.0 is running in your environment. Check running web services, installed applications, or review your software inventory for 'Ajaysharma Cups Easy' or 'Cups Easy' with version 1.0.
    Affected if The application is installed and accessible on your network
  2. Verify the vulnerable endpoint exists
    Locate the file statecreate.php in your web root under the /cupseasylive/ directory path. Confirm the file exists and is accessible via HTTP/HTTPS.
    Affected if The file /cupseasylive/statecreate.php exists and is reachable
  3. Check if stateid parameter is processed
    Review the statecreate.php source code and identify how the stateid parameter handles user input. Look for any input handling logic that processes the stateid field.
    Affected if The application processes user input through the stateid parameter without proper output encoding
  4. Test for unencoded output reflection
    Submit a test payload (such as a benign HTML tag) to the stateid parameter via the statecreate.php form and inspect whether the value is reflected back in the response without HTML encoding.
    Affected if User input in stateid is reflected in responses without proper HTML encoding
  5. Inspect session cookie security flags
    Examine the session cookie configuration for the application. Check if the session cookie has HTTPOnly and Secure flags set. Inspect cookies returned by the application in browser dev tools or via curl.
    Affected if Session cookies lack HTTPOnly or Secure flags, making them vulnerable to theft via XSS

Your environment is affected if you are running Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory v1.0, the statecreate.php endpoint exists, and the stateid parameter reflects user input without proper encoding, allowing stored XSS that could steal session cookies lacking HTTPOnly/Secure protection.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement input validation and output encoding for the stateid parameter, and set HTTPOnly and Secure flags on session cookies to prevent XSS-based session theft.

Fix this in Cups Easy Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Review / QA1.0 h
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