CVE-2023-6422
Published: 30 November 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-6422 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Bigprof Online Clinic Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 38.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58659
- 🇪🇸 INCIBE: www.incibe.es
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been discovered in BigProf Online Clinic Management System 2.2, which does not sufficiently encode user-controlled input, resulting in persistent XSS through /clinic/patients_view.php, in the FirstRecord parameter. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacking user to store…
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dangerous JavaScript payloads on the system that will be triggered when the page loads.
- 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.