Attack ChainAIDerived
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AccessCraft malicious doc_name link with JavaScript
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DeliveryDeliver link to clinic user
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ExploitVictim loads doctorregistration.php
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ExecutionUnsanitized value echoed to browser
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ImpactScript executes in victim session
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 that an attacker get a victim with access to the application to load a crafted request to doctorregistration.php carrying a malicious doc_name parameter (UI:P - user interaction is required, so this is not a zero-click flaw). No authentication is needed by the attacker (PR:N), and the Doctor Registration component must be reachable and deployed for the attack to work. The reflected nature means the payload must be delivered per-victim (e.g., via a crafted link), and impact is limited to the victim's browser session (VI:L, no confidentiality or availability impact). The chief limiting factor is the required user interaction and the product's negligible deployment base; there is no fixed release available because the project ships rolling releases and has not responded to the report. |
| Impact | Signals are mostly aligned toward LOW real-world risk despite a MEDIUM CVSS. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:P, VC:N/VI:L/VA:N) describes a remotely reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated reflected XSS that requires user interaction (UI:P, a victim must click/load a crafted link) and yields only a limited integrity impact with no confidentiality or availability impact - consistent with a 5.3 base score. Exploitation maturity is E:P (proof-of-concept), matching the published exploit on the project's GitHub issue tracker. No EPSS score was provided in the input, and the CVE is NOT in CISA KEV, so there is no evidence of active exploitation - only publicly available exploit code exists. The affected product (subhajitkhan/online-clinic-management-system) is an individual-developer GitHub project with no enterprise footprint, so even though the flaw is remotely triggerable, realistic exposure is minimal. Bottom line: this is a genuine but low-priority reflected XSS - a real issue to patch for anyone running this specific application, but not a widespread emergency. Note the vendor has not responded to the issue report and uses rolling releases, so no fixed version exists - a mitigating-control rather than patch situation. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious link containing JavaScript in the doc_name parameter of doctorregistration.php and lures a clinic staff member or administrator into clicking it. When the victim's browser loads the page, the unsanitized doc_name value is echoed back and the injected script executes in their session context. A proof-of-concept exploit has been publicly published on the project's GitHub issue tracker, and the attack is remote but requires victim interaction (UI:P). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 19, 2026
Reflected cross-site scripting in the Doctor Registration component (doctorregistration.php) of subhajitkhan's online-clinic-management-system allows remote attackers to inject script into a victim's browser session by manipulating the doc_name parameter, which the application echoes back without encoding. No authentication is required of the attacker, but exploitation depends on a victim loading a crafted request - the assessed vector is UI:R, so this is not a zero-click flaw - and impact is confined to the victim's session with no confidentiality or availability loss. Publicly available exploit code exists and the flaw has been published by VulDB, but it is not confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); real-world risk is assessed as LOW despite the MEDIUM 5.3 base score, chiefly because of the required user interaction and the project's negligible deployment base.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis: the project uses rolling releases, the maintainer was notified via GitHub issue #6 (https://github.com/subhajitkhan/online-clinic-management-system/issues/6), and has not responded. Until an upstream fix lands, apply source-level mitigation by wrapping the doc_name output in doctorregistration.php with context-appropriate encoding (e.g., htmlspecialchars($doc_name, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8')) or by validating doc_name against a strict allowlist of characters - note that aggressive allowlisting can reject legitimate names containing apostrophes or non-Latin scripts. If the code cannot be modified, restrict network access to doctorregistration.php via web-server ACLs or a reverse proxy, or temporarily disable the doctor self-registration page; the trade-off is loss of that onboarding workflow. Deploying a Content-Security-Policy with a restrictive script-src and no unsafe-inline reduces payload execution but may break inline scripts elsewhere in the application. A WAF rule blocking script-bearing doc_name parameters (GET and POST) provides interim coverage at the cost of possible false positives on unusual name input. Monitor the project repository (https://github.com/subhajitkhan/online-clinic-management-system/) for a fix commit, and consult the VulDB advisory (https://vuldb.com/vuln/421901) for updates.
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The affected product is a PHP-based web application (online clinic management) implementing a doctor self-registration workflow. CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) manifests here as classic reflected XSS: the value supplied in the doc_name request parameter is passed to PHP's echo in doctorregistration.php and emitted into the generated HTML response without contextual output encoding or validation. Because the payload is reflected rather than persisted, it is not stored server-side and must be delivered per-victim, typically through a crafted URL that the victim must click or otherwise load. The application ships as rolling releases with no versioned tags, so the CPE entry (cpe:2.3:a:subhajitkhan:online-clinic-management-system) cannot pin a version range; the report references the project state up to commit e9ee77a8827a1446220fa07ee693dc4d9a29a578. VulDB published the finding with a CVSS 4.0 score of 5.3 (E:P, indicating a proof-of-concept), while the independent assessment maps it to CVSS 3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - unauthenticated over the network, but gated behind user interaction.
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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 needing victim interaction (UI:R); scope change (S:C) as script runs in the victim's browser context, with limited confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulDB).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulDB
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3DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw has been found in subhajitkhan online-clinic-management-system up to e9ee77a8827a1446220fa07ee693dc4d9a29a578. The affected element is the function echo of the file doctorregistration.php of the component Doctor Registration. Executing a manipulation of the argument doc_name can lead to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. This product takes the approach of rolling releases to provide continious delivery. Therefore, version details for affected and updated releases are not available. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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