CVE-2021-39416
Published: 05 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-39416 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Remoteclinic Remote Clinic. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 34.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-25775
Vulnerability details
Multiple Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities exists in Remote Clinic v2.0 in (1) patients/register-patient.php via the (a) Contact, (b) Email, (c) Weight, (d) Profession, (e) ref_contact, (f) address, (g) gender, (h) age, and (i) serial parameters; in (2) patients/edit-patient.php via…
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the (a) Contact, (b) Email, (c) Weight, Profession, (d) ref_contact, (e) address, (f) serial, (g) age, and (h) gender parameters; in (3) staff/edit-my-profile.php via the (a) Title, (b) First Name, (c) Last Name, (d) Skype, and (e) Address parameters; and in (4) clinics/settings.php via the (a) portal_name, (b) guardian_short_name, (c) guardian_name, (d) opening_time, (e) closing_time, (f) access_level_5, (g) access_level_4, (h) access_level_ 3, (i) access_level_2, (j) access_level_1, (k) currency, (l) mobile_number, (m) address, (n) patient_contact, (o) patient_address, and (p) patient_email parameters.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.