CVE-2024-50983
Published: 15 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-50983 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Getflightpath Flightpath. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 39.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-45039
Vulnerability details
FlightPath 7.5 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which allows authenticated remote attackers with administrative rights to inject arbitrary JavaScript in the web browser of a user by including a malicious payload into the Last Name section in the…
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Create/Edit Faculty/Staff User or Create/Edit Student User sections.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS allows authenticated admins to inject arbitrary JavaScript into user profiles, executing JS in victims' browsers (T1059.007) to enable browser session hijacking (T1185) and web session cookie theft (T1539).
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.