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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Hospital Management System In Php
PHPGurukul Hospital Management System in PHP v4.0 has a Persistent Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in \hms\admin\appointment-history.php. Remote registered users can exploit the vulnerability to obtain user cookie data. (2021-06-22, CVE-2020-22167)
PHPGurukul hospital-management-system-in-php 4.0 allows XSS via admin/patient-search.php, doctor/search.php, book-appointment.php, doctor/appointment-history.php, or admin/appointment-history.php. (2020-10-08, CVE-2020-25271)
PHPGurukul Hospital Management System in PHP v4.0 suffers from multiple reflected XSS vulnerabilities via the searchdata or Doctorspecialization parameter. (2020-01-14, CVE-2020-5193)
PHPGurukul Hospital Management System in PHP v4.0 suffers from multiple Persistent XSS vulnerabilities. (2020-01-06, CVE-2020-5191)
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>