CVE-2021-43712 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Stored XSS in Add New Employee Form in Sourcecodester Employee Daily Task Management System 1.0 Allows Remote Attacker to Inject/Store Arbitrary Code via the Name Field.

Published: 2022-05-09

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:employee_daily_task_management_system_project:employee_daily_task_management_system:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-30619	Stored XSS in Add New Employee Form in Sourcecodester Employee Daily Task Management System 1.0 Allows Remote Attacker to Inject/Store Arbitrary Code via the Name Field.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00686.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://patelvarshil.medium.com/cve-2021-43712-stored-xss-how-i-got-my-first-cve-5381370482d4

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Employee Daily Task Management System Project Employee Daily Task Management System

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-05-09T20:58:43.000Z

Updated: 2026-07-09T00:15:48.155Z

Reserved: 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43712

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-05-09T21:15:07.930

Modified: 2026-07-09T01:17:08.947

Link: CVE-2021-43712

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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