CVE-2023-36118 — Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Faculty Evaulation System using PHP/MySQLi

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Faculty Evaulation System using PHP/MySQLi v.1.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload to the page parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Faculty Evaulation System using PHP/MySQLi v.1.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload to the page parameter.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-17T20:36:31.502Z

09References

• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172672/Faculty-Evaluation-System-1.0-Shell-…
• hackmd.io — https://hackmd.io/%40SY-T/Hy6HvwxPn
• github.com — https://github.com/Trinity-SYT-SECURITY/XSS_vuln_issue/blob/main/Faculty%20Evalu…
• www.chtsecurity.com — https://www.chtsecurity.com/news/4ffbe017-70e1-4789-bfe6-4d6fb0d1a0b7
• www.chtsecurity.com — https://www.chtsecurity.com/news/5282e0af-7c45-43b0-9869-9becee7d6d70