Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessCraft malicious Search parameter URL
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DeliveryDeliver crafted link to victim
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ExploitVictim loads /abs.php reflecting payload
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ExecutionScript executes in victim browser
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ImpactSteal session or perform actions as victim
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
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 deliver a crafted URL targeting the Search argument of /abs.php and have a victim load it (UI:P / passive user interaction is the key limiting factor). No authentication is required (PR:N) and the attack is remote over the network (AV:N), but it is a reflected XSS, so it depends on social engineering to get a user to follow the attacker-controlled request against a running Blood_Bank_Management_System 1.0.0 instance. There is no confidentiality or availability impact; impact is limited to script execution in the victim's browser session. No non-default configuration is indicated as required by the description. |
| Impact | This is a reflected cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) in the Search argument of /abs.php in hrisikeshpal Blood_Bank_Management_System 1.0.0. The provided CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N) is network-reachable with low complexity and no privileges, but requires passive user interaction (UI:P) and yields only low integrity impact with no confidentiality or availability impact - consistent with a score of 5.3 (medium). The signals are internally coherent and point to low-to-medium real-world risk: publicly available exploit code exists (reported by VulDB, with a GitHub issue referenced as the exploit), but there is NO CISA KEV listing, so this is 'publicly available exploit code exists' and NOT confirmed active exploitation - these are distinct signals and must not be conflated. No EPSS score was provided in the input, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified here. The dominant risk-limiting factor is that exploitation requires tricking a victim into clicking a crafted link (UI:P), and the affected product is an obscure single-developer GitHub project with negligible production footprint. The vendor was notified via an issue report but has not responded, so no patch is confirmed available. Net: a legitimate but low-priority medium-severity issue - the high accessibility (remote, unauthenticated) is offset by required user interaction, limited impact, and minimal deployment. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a URL to /abs.php with a malicious script payload in the Search parameter and sends it to a victim (e.g., via phishing). When the victim clicks the link, the reflected payload executes in their browser in the context of the Blood Bank Management System site, enabling session/cookie theft or UI manipulation. Public exploit material exists (referenced GitHub issue), lowering the effort required. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 18, 2026
Reflected cross-site scripting (CWE-79) in the Search argument of /abs.php in hrisikeshpal Blood Bank Management System 1.0.0 lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker inject script that executes in a victim's browser session. Exploitation requires the victim to load an attacker-crafted request (UI:P passive user interaction), so it depends on link-delivery or social engineering against a running instance rather than direct compromise; confidentiality and availability impact is assessed as none, with only limited integrity impact inside the victim's session. Publicly available exploit code exists and the flaw was disclosed through a GitHub issue that the project has not yet answered; no vendor-released patch was identified at time of analysis, and EPSS/KEV data was not provided.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch was identified at time of analysis: the upstream GitHub issue (https://github.com/hrisikeshpal/Blood_Bank_Management_System/issues/1) was filed with the project but has not been answered, and no fixed release version is published in the CPE or reference data, so track https://github.com/hrisikeshpal/Blood_Bank_Management_System/ and the VulDB entry https://vuldb.com/vuln/421592 for an update. As compensating controls, apply HTML-context output encoding (or strict input allow-listing) to the Search parameter in /abs.php so reflected values are escaped before rendering; this is the correct fix but requires maintaining a local code patch across upgrades. Deploy a reverse-proxy or WAF rule that blocks query strings containing script vectors (for example <script, event handler attributes, and javascript: URIs) on /abs.php - effective against commodity payloads but bypassable and prone to false positives on legitimate search terms. Because this is an internal record-management application, restrict /abs.php and the whole installation to authenticated staff networks or a VPN, which removes the untrusted-internet delivery path at the cost of reduced accessibility. Set session cookies with HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax/Strict and enable a restrictive Content-Security-Policy (e.g. script-src 'self') to blunt script execution and cookie theft if a payload still reflects; CSP requires auditing any inline scripts the application relies on. Finally, disable or temporarily remove /abs.php if it is not actively used until an upstream fix is available.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The target is a PHP-based web application (the CPE cpe:2.3:a:hrisikeshpal:blood_bank_management_system with a wildcard version, matched against release 1.0.0) in which /abs.php takes a Search parameter and reflects it back into the generated HTML response without proper contextual output encoding. This is the classic CWE-79 reflected variant: the tainted request parameter flows straight into the response body, so script content placed in the parameter is parsed and executed by the victim's browser in the origin of the application. Because the script runs in the application's origin, it can act with the victim's session context (for example, reading non-HttpOnly cookies or issuing authenticated requests), although the independent assessment caps this specific instance at low integrity impact with no confidentiality or availability impact (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N). The CVSS 4.0 vector supplied by the discloser (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P) agrees on the essentials: network reachable, no privileges required, passive user interaction, scope limited to the client, and an E:P (proof-of-concept) exploit maturity metric reflecting the published PoC. There is no indication that any non-default configuration, special module, or authenticated role is needed to reach the vulnerable reflection.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Remote unauthenticated reflected XSS requiring victim click (UI:R); scope change (S:C) as script runs in the browser, with low confidentiality impact and no integrity/availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulDB).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulDB
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3DescriptionCVE.org
A weakness has been identified in hrisikeshpal Blood_Bank_Management_System 1.0.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /abs.php. This manipulation of the argument Search causes cross site scripting. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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