CVE-2024-23882
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 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/taxcodecreate.php, in the taxcodeid 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 · moderate confidenceA reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory v1.0 allows injection of malicious JavaScript through the taxcodeid parameter of /cupseasylive/taxcodecreate.php. When an authenticated user visits a crafted URL, the unsanitized input executes in their browser, enabling attackers to steal session cookie credentials.
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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 Cups Easy v1.0 is installedLocate the Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory application installation and identify the installed version. Check for version files in the web root, version information in the application footer, or metadata files within the application directory. Compare against the affected version (= 1.0).Affected if The installed version is Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory version 1.0
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Verify vulnerable endpoint existsCheck the web server document root for the file path /cupseasylive/taxcodecreate.php. This file should exist in the cupseasylive subdirectory of the web application.Affected if The file taxcodecreate.php exists in the /cupseasylive/ directory and is accessible via the web server
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Confirm authentication is requiredVerify that access to the vulnerable endpoint requires prior authentication by checking if the application redirects unauthenticated users to a login page when accessing /cupseasylive/taxcodecreate.php.Affected if The vulnerable endpoint is accessible only to authenticated users (session-based authentication required)
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Test XSS reflection in taxcodeid parameterUsing an authenticated browser session, navigate to /cupseasylive/taxcodecreate.php?taxcodeid=<script>alert(1)</script> and inspect the HTML response source to see if the parameter value is reflected without HTML encoding.Affected if The taxcodeid parameter value is reflected in the HTML response without proper encoding/escaping
You are affected if running Cups Easy Purchase & Inventory v1.0 with the vulnerable taxcodecreate.php endpoint that reflects the taxcodeid parameter without sanitization to authenticated users.
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 dataApply proper output encoding/escaping for the taxcodeid parameter before reflecting it in the HTML response, implement input validation, and consider adding Content-Security-Policy headers to mitigate XSS execution.
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