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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Car Rental Management System
Sourcecodester Car Rental Management System 1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via vehicalorcview parameter. (2022-01-18, CVE-2021-46005)
The VikRentCar Car Rental Management System WordPress plugin before 1.1.10 does not sanitise the 'Text Next to Icon' field when adding or editing a Characteristic, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payload in it, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue (2021-08-16, CVE-2021-24519)
A Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in message_admin.php in Projectworlds Car Rental Management System v1.0 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to harvest an admin login session cookie and steal an admin session upon an admin login. (2020-10-06, CVE-2020-23832)
Why Cross-site Scripting can be dangerous
Cross site scripting is an attack where a web page executes code that is injected by an adversary. It usually appears, when users input is presented. This attack can be used to impersonate a user, take over control of the session, or even steal API keys.
The attack can be executed e.g. when you application injects the request parameter directly into the HTML code of the page returned to the user:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=Transaction+Complete
what results in:
<span>Confirmation: Transaction Complete</span>
In that case the message can be modified to become a valid Javascript code, e.g.:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=<script>dangerous javascript code here</script>
and it will be executed locally by the user's browser with full access to the user's personal application/browser data:
<span>Confirmation: <script>dangerous javascript code here</script></span>