Stored JavaScript execution via unencoded post content
Published Mar 27, 2026 · Updated Mar 27, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in Code Projects Social Networking Site 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to run JavaScript in other users' browsers. The home.php feed reads content from the post table and echoes it directly into an HTML alert element without output encoding. An attacker must publish a crafted post, and execution occurs when another user views the affected feed or timeline.
Summary
What happened
Stored cross-site scripting in Code Projects Social Networking Site 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to run JavaScript in other users' browsers. The home.php feed reads content from the post table and echoes it directly into an HTML alert element without output encoding. An attacker must publish a crafted post, and execution occurs when another user views the affected feed or timeline.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-4969
- Published
- Mar 27, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 27, 2026
- Vendor
- Tutorials Website
- Product
- Social Networking Site
- Classifications
- CWE-94, CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Stored Cross-Site Scripting in PHP Social Networking Site proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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