CVE-2024-40473 — A Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in "manage_houses

A Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in "manage_houses.php" in SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System v1.0. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "House_no" and "Description" parameter fields.

01What is this vulnerability?

A Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in "manage_houses.php" in SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System v1.0. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "House_no" and "Description" parameter fields.

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: 2024-08-08T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-03T18:20:45.666Z

09References

• www.sourcecodester.com — https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/17375/best-courier-management-system-project-…
• github.com — https://github.com/takekaramey/CVE_Writeup/blob/main/Sourcecodester/Best%20House…