Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-48704

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 23 May 2025

Published
23 May 2025
Modified
09 June 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 40.5th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-48704 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Medical Card Generation System. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 40.5th 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

Phpgurukul Medical Card Generation System v1.0 is vulnerable to HTML Injection in admin/contactus.php via the parameter pagedes.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

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.
T1491 Defacement Impact
Adversaries may modify visual content available internally or externally to an enterprise network, thus affecting the integrity of the original content.
Why these techniques?

HTML injection in web application admin panel enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190) and facilitates internal website defacement (T1491) by injecting arbitrary HTML content.

Affected Assets

phpgurukul
medical card generation 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.

addresses: CWE-79

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

addresses: CWE-79

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

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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