Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain high-privilege application credentials
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DeliveryAuthenticate to STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM
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ExploitInject XSS payload into Name field on Dashboard Page
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ExecutionVictim user loads Dashboard Page
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ImpactMalicious script executes in victim's browser context
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to possess a high-privilege authenticated session within STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM (CVSS PR:H) - unauthenticated or low-privilege users cannot trigger this vulnerability. A second condition, CVSS UI:P, requires that at least one other user load the Dashboard Page containing the injected payload after it has been submitted. The attack is limited to the Dashboard Page's Name argument specifically; other application components are not implicated in this disclosure. Exploitation is further bounded by the application's likely small and controlled user base - this is a niche open-source academic tool, not a widely deployed enterprise platform. No special network position, non-default configuration, or protocol condition is required beyond holding a high-privilege account. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 base score of 1.9 accurately reflects the compound limitations of this vulnerability. PR:H mandates that the attacker already hold high-privilege credentials within the application before exploitation is possible - the attacker has already cleared a significant authentication barrier. UI:P further requires that a separate user interact with the affected page for the payload to execute. Together, these constraints make opportunistic, automated, or unauthenticated exploitation impossible. The impact metrics (VI:L only, all others N) confirm that successful exploitation yields only minor integrity degradation - typical of a stored XSS that modifies page appearance or redirects a victim, rather than achieving account takeover or data exfiltration. No EPSS score was provided in the input data; given the niche, low-traffic nature of this open-source student management project, real-world exploitation probability is expected to be very low. Publicly available exploit code exists (via GitHub issue #3), but no CISA KEV listing exists, meaning no confirmed in-the-wild abuse has been documented. The primary realistic risk scenario is insider-threat-style abuse by a trusted high-privilege user. CVSS and contextual signals are fully consistent here - this is a genuine low-priority issue. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a high-privilege account in the application navigates to the Dashboard Page and submits a crafted value in the Name field containing a JavaScript payload. When another authenticated user subsequently loads the Dashboard Page, the injected script executes in their browser session. Publicly available exploit code exists via the GitHub issue disclosure, lowering the skill bar for anyone who already has the required privileged access. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – May 30, 2026
Cross-site scripting in sambitraj STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM 1.0 allows a high-privileged authenticated attacker to inject malicious script into the Name argument on the Dashboard Page, which executes in the browser of any user who subsequently views the affected page. The vulnerability requires both elevated privileges and victim interaction, placing real-world impact firmly in the low-to-negligible range despite network reachability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis as actively weaponized (no CISA KEV listing), though publicly available exploit code exists via a GitHub issue disclosure.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis. The project maintainer was notified via a responsible disclosure issue report (github.com/sambitraj/STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM/issues/3) but had not responded as of the disclosure date. Until a patch is released, administrators should apply output encoding for all user-supplied input rendered in the Dashboard Page - specifically escaping HTML special characters in the Name field before rendering. Deploying a Content Security Policy (CSP) header with a strict script-src directive can meaningfully reduce the impact of any XSS payload that does execute, though it does not eliminate the underlying flaw. Restricting Dashboard Page access to the minimum required set of privileged users limits the attacker population. Because the CVSS vector requires PR:H (high privileges), reducing the number of high-privilege accounts is the single most effective compensating control. Monitor the upstream GitHub repository at github.com/sambitraj/STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM for any commits or tagged releases addressing this issue.
Affected VersionsENISA
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM is an open-source PHP-based academic records web application maintained at github.com/sambitraj/STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM. The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation - Cross-site Scripting): user-supplied input in the Name field on the Dashboard Page is rendered into the HTML response without adequate output encoding or sanitization. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:sambitraj:student-management-system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* with the wildcard version segment indicates the version range is not bounded above in NVD data, though the disclosure references version 1.0 specifically. The CVSS 4.0 vector AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N confirms the attack is network-delivered with low complexity, but the impact is strictly limited to low integrity modification with no confidentiality or availability consequence, and no scope change into other components.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
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1DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability has been found in sambitraj STUDENT-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Dashboard Page. The manipulation of the argument Name leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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