CVE-2023-38881 — A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Community Edition ve

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Community Edition version 9.0 of OS4ED's openSIS Classic allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the web browser of a user, by including a malicious payload into any of the 'calendar_id'

01What is this vulnerability?

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Community Edition version 9.0 of OS4ED's openSIS Classic allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the web browser of a user, by including a malicious payload into any of the 'calendar_id', 'school_date', 'month' or 'year' parameters in 'CalendarModal.php'.

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: 2023-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T17:54:39.236Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/OS4ED/openSIS-Classic
• www.os4ed.com — https://www.os4ed.com/
• github.com — https://github.com/dub-flow/vulnerability-research/tree/main/CVE-2023-38881