CVE-2021-43712
Published: 09 May 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-43712 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Employee Daily Task Management System Project Employee Daily Task Management System. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-30619
Vulnerability details
Stored XSS in Add New Employee Form in Sourcecodester Employee Daily Task Management System 1.0 Allows Remote Attacker to Inject/Store Arbitrary Code via the Name Field.
- CWE(s)
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.