Session hijacking via non-HttpOnly PHP session cookie
Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026
Missing HttpOnly protection in Sambit Raj Student Management System allows remote attackers to steal authenticated session cookies. Login and dashboard calls to session_start() rely on PHP defaults, causing PHPSESSID to be returned with path=/ but without HttpOnly. Exploitation requires script execution in the application origin, after which document.cookie exposes the identifier for session hijacking.
Summary
What happened
Missing HttpOnly protection in Sambit Raj Student Management System allows remote attackers to steal authenticated session cookies. Login and dashboard calls to session_start() rely on PHP defaults, causing PHPSESSID to be returned with path=/ but without HttpOnly. Exploitation requires script execution in the application origin, after which document.cookie exposes the identifier for session hijacking.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-82697
- Published
- Aug 31, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 31, 2026
- Vendor
- Sambit Raj
- Product
- Student Management System
- Classifications
- CWE-732, CWE-1004, T1539
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 31, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 31, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=56ba287f2e9031523ccb4244cb6e3fe530e4e5d5
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- PHP session cookie reproduction in GitHub issue 10proof of concept · demonstrated
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