CVE-2021-37781 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Employee Record Management System v 1.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via editempprofile.php.

Published: 2022-10-28

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:phpgurukul:employee_record_management_system:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2021-24262	Employee Record Management System v 1.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via editempprofile.php.

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

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00548.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/BigTiger2020/Employee-Record-Management-System/blob/main/Employee%20Record%20Management%20System%20-%20xss.md
https://phpgurukul.com/employee-record-management-system-in-php-and-mysql/

History

Wed, 07 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Phpgurukul Employee Record Management System

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-28T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T16:17:32.147Z

Reserved: 2021-08-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-37781

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:30:08.571Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-28T15:15:13.753

Modified: 2025-05-07T17:15:53.640

Link: CVE-2021-37781

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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