CVE-2024-8708
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 SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System 1.0. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file categories.php. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated 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 categories.php file of the Best House Rental Management System 1.0. The application fails to properly sanitize user input before reflecting it back in the page, allowing an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code that executes in the victim's browser. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by tricking users into viewing crafted content.
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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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Identify the installed version of Best House Rental Management SystemCheck the application version by reviewing any version file, README, or footer on the admin/login pages. Look for '1.0' specifically.Affected if The installed version is 1.0 of Mayurik Best House Rental Management System
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Locate the categories.php fileSearch the web root directory for categories.php - typically found in the main application folder or an admin/includes subdirectory.Affected if The categories.php file exists in the application installation
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Inspect categories.php for unsanitized input reflectionOpen categories.php in a text editor and search for how POST/GET parameters (especially category name/description fields) are handled. Look for direct insertion of input variables into HTML output without sanitization functions like htmlspecialchars() or equivalent.Affected if User-supplied input from form fields is directly output to the page without encoding or escaping
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Check if the categories functionality is accessibleNavigate to the categories management page in the application (typically /categories.php or /admin/categories.php). Try adding a new category with normal text to observe if your input appears exactly as entered in the page output.Affected if The categories page is accessible and reflects input back to the user without modification
The environment is affected if running Best House Rental Management System version 1.0 with the categories.php file present and reflecting user input without proper sanitization.
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/escaping for all user-supplied data in categories.php. Use context-appropriate escaping functions and consider implementing a Content Security Policy (CSP) header as a defense-in-depth measure.
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