Session cookie theft via unencoded description parameter
Published Jan 26, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025
Reflected XSS in Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory) 1.0 allows remote attackers to steal an authenticated user’s session cookie. The statelist.php endpoint returns the description parameter in generated page content without sufficient output encoding. Exploitation requires an authenticated user to open a crafted URL; injected script executes in that user’s browser and exposes the session cookie.
Summary
What happened
Reflected XSS in Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory) 1.0 allows remote attackers to steal an authenticated user’s session cookie. The statelist.php endpoint returns the description parameter in generated page content without sufficient output encoding. Exploitation requires an authenticated user to open a crafted URL; injected script executes in that user’s browser and exposes the session cookie.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-23881
- Published
- Jan 26, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Cups Easy
- Product
- Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory)
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1539
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 26, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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