Victim-session script execution via unencoded student names
Published May 25, 2026 · Updated May 25, 2026
Stored XSS in Yash Pokharna Student Management System allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in a victim's session. student.php writes database-sourced FIRST_NAME values directly into HTML table cells without output encoding, causing stored script markup to be interpreted as active content. Exploitation requires planting a payload and an authenticated victim to open the student list; execution is confined to that victim's browser session.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Yash Pokharna Student Management System allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in a victim's session. student.php writes database-sourced FIRST_NAME values directly into HTML table cells without output encoding, causing stored script markup to be interpreted as active content. Exploitation requires planting a payload and an authenticated victim to open the student list; execution is confined to that victim's browser session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-9471
- Published
- May 25, 2026
- Updated
- May 25, 2026
- Vendor
- Yash Pokharna
- Product
- Student Management System
- Classifications
- CWE-79, CWE-94, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=cb2f558ddf8d19396de0f92abf2d224d46a0a203
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- Stored Cross-Site Scripting in student.php proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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