CVE-2024-48704
Published: 23 May 2025
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-54630
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
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
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.