Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-42918

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 23 August 2024

Published
23 August 2024
Modified
13 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.2th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-42918 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Adonesevangelista Online Accreditation Management System. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 44.2th 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

Vulnerability details

itsourcecode Online Accreditation Management System contains a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload to the SCHOOLNAME, EMAILADDRES, CONTACTNO, COMPANYNAME and COMPANYCONTACTNO parameters in controller.php.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

XSS vulnerability in public-facing web application enables exploitation for initial access (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browsers (T1059.007).

Affected Assets

adonesevangelista
online accreditation management system
1.0

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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