CVE-2024-51654
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 · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Eric Allen APK Downloader apk-downloader allows Stored XSS.This issue affects APK Downloader: from n/a through <= 1.0.0.
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 CSRF vulnerability in the APK Downloader web application allows attackers to craft malicious requests that result in stored XSS payloads being saved to the server. When authenticated users subsequently access the affected content, the injected scripts execute in their browsers, enabling session hijacking, credential theft, or further privilege escalation.
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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
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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 if APK Downloader web application is presentSearch your web server for files related to APK Downloader functionality, or check running web services for applications that serve APK files to usersAffected if APK Downloader web application is running and accessible on your network
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Verify CSRF protection on state-changing endpointsInspect the application's forms and AJAX requests that modify data (download requests, user inputs). Check if each includes a CSRF token or anti-CSRF mechanism such as SameSite cookies, Origin header validation, or custom tokensAffected if State-changing operations lack CSRF tokens or anti-CSRF validation
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Test for stored XSS via CSRFCreate a benign test payload (e.g., <script>alert('test')</script>) and attempt to submit it through the application's download or content submission features without a proper token. Observe if the payload is stored and reflected back without sanitizationAffected if The application accepts and stores arbitrary HTML/JavaScript in input fields without encoding or validation
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Review cookie security settingsExamine the session cookies set by the application. Check if they have the SameSite attribute configured, particularly for authenticated user sessionsAffected if Cookies lack SameSite attribute or are set to 'Lax' without additional CSRF safeguards
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Check authentication-required areas for XSS executionLog in as a standard user and navigate to areas where user-submitted content (download names, descriptions, comments) is displayed. Verify whether unsanitized content renders as plain text rather than being encodedAffected if User-submitted content renders as executable HTML/JavaScript in authenticated areas
Your environment is affected if the APK Downloader web application is running and state-changing operations lack CSRF protection, allowing stored XSS payloads to be executed when authenticated users access the content.
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 anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations and apply context-aware output encoding/sanitization to prevent stored XSS. Consider SameSite cookie attributes and Origin/Referer header validation.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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