CVE-2023-49539 — Book Store Management System v1

Book Store Management System v1.0 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in /bsms_ci/index.php/category. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the category parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

Book Store Management System v1.0 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in /bsms_ci/index.php/category. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the category 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: 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-11-06T19:36:46.614Z

09References

• owasp.org — https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/
• www.sourcecodester.com — https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/15748/book-store-management-system-project-us…
• owasp.org — https://owasp.org/Top10/A03_2021-Injection/
• github.com — https://github.com/geraldoalcantara/CVE-2023-49539