GHSA-fc4p-p49v-r948

Summary

A critical Stored Cross-Site Scripting (Stored XSS) vulnerability exists in the backend user management functionality. The application fails to properly sanitize user-controlled input before rendering it in the administrative interface, allowing attackers to inject persistent JavaScript code. This results in automatic execution whenever backend users access the affected page, enabling session hijacking, privilege escalation, and full administrative account compromise.

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Details

The vulnerability resides in the backend user creation feature accessible via:

/backend/users

User-supplied input in the name and surname fields is stored without proper validation or sanitization. When this data is later rendered in the backend users listing page, it is injected directly into the HTML without output encoding.

Because of this, attackers can embed malicious JavaScript payloads that execute in the context of authenticated backend users.

This indicates missing contextual output escaping (e.g., HTML encoding) and insufficient input sanitization, leading to persistent script execution.

The vulnerability is particularly severe because:

• The payload is stored in the database (persistent XSS).
• The script executes automatically on page load.
• The affected page appears to be an administrative/backend interface, increasing the risk of privilege escalation.

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PoC

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to:

http://localhost:8080/backend/users

2. Click Add New User.

3. Create a new user.

4. In the name and surname fields, insert the following payload:

adnan"><img src=1 onerror=alert(document.cookie)><<e>img src=1 onerror=alert(document.cookie)>

5. Save the user.

6. After saving, a popup displaying cookies will appear, demonstrating JavaScript execution.

7. Revisit:

http://localhost:8080/backend/users

8. The popup automatically triggers again, confirming that the malicious script is stored and...