CVE-2026-37750
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 reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in School Management System by mahmoudai1 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in victim's browsers via the unsanitized type parameter in register.php.
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 confidenceA reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the School Management System's register.php file. The 'type' parameter is not sanitized before being reflected back in the HTTP response, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript code that executes in victim browsers.
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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
- 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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Locate register.php in the web applicationSearch the web root directory for the file register.php, typically found in the /admin/, /student/, or root registration folder of a School Management System deployment.Affected if register.php exists in the application directory structure
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Verify the 'type' parameter is in useReview the register.php source code and identify if the 'type' parameter is referenced via $_GET, $_REQUEST, or similar superglobals.Affected if The code processes a 'type' parameter from user input without sanitization
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Confirm lack of input sanitization on 'type' parameterExamine the register.php code for any sanitization functions (htmlspecialchars, strip_tags, filter_var) applied to the 'type' parameter before output.Affected if The 'type' parameter is output directly to the page without encoding or filtering
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Test for reflected XSS manually (if authorized)In a non-production environment, access register.php with a crafted URL such as register.php?type=<script>alert(1)</script> and verify if the script executes in the browser.Affected if The injected script tag appears verbatim in the page response and executes when the URL is loaded
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Check deployed version of School Management SystemIf version information is available in the application header, footer, or an admin panel, record it and compare against any official release notes mentioning CVE-2026-37750 fixes.Affected if The installed version predates the patch for this vulnerability
If register.php processes the 'type' parameter without sanitization and reflects it into the HTML output, the application is affected by this reflected XSS vulnerability.
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 for the 'type' parameter in register.php, utilizing context-appropriate escaping functions and considering input validation allowlists.
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