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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Low-privilege account required (PR:L); victim must trigger payload (UI:R); changed scope reflects script execution in victim browser, enabling session theft (C:L) and page content manipulation (I:L).
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A vulnerability was detected in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System up to 70b91fe38f4195b701a45f0edcd4f42d5f64aeee. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file absent.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument export_date results in cross site scripting. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. This product is using a rolling release to provide continious delivery. Therefore, no version details for affected nor updated releases are available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
AnalysisAI
Cross-site scripting in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System allows a remote, low-privileged attacker to inject malicious JavaScript via the export_date parameter in absent.php, executing in the browser context of any victim user who interacts with attacker-crafted content. All versions up to commit 70b91fe38f4195b701a45f0edcd4f42d5f64aeee are affected; the project's rolling release model means no discrete patched version exists, and the vendor did not respond to disclosure. No public exploit code has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV at time of analysis.
Technical ContextAI
The affected application is a PHP-based attendance management system (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:akpali9:attendance-management-system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) with the vulnerability rooted in absent.php, which handles export functionality. The export_date parameter is rendered in the HTTP response without adequate sanitization or output encoding - the classic pattern underlying CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation - Cross-Site Scripting). In PHP applications this typically manifests as user-controlled input passed directly to an echo or print statement without htmlspecialchars() or equivalent encoding. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P) confirms the attack surface is a standard network-accessible web endpoint requiring no special protocol conditions.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis; the vendor did not respond to pre-disclosure contact. The most direct remediation is a code-level fix: apply htmlspecialchars() with ENT_QUOTES encoding to the export_date parameter before it is reflected into any HTML output in absent.php - this carries no functional side effects when implemented correctly. Organizations unable to modify application code should deploy a WAF rule blocking common XSS payloads in the export_date request parameter; note that WAF rules for XSS can be bypassed by sufficiently obfuscated payloads and should not be considered a permanent fix. Restricting network access to the absent.php endpoint to trusted internal IP ranges limits exposure at the network layer without touching application logic. As a final fallback, disabling the export feature entirely removes the attack surface at the cost of export functionality. VulDB advisory: https://vuldb.com/vuln/377800.
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EUVD-2026-43215
GHSA-68wj-g9jx-fg7j