CVE-2021-37781 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

ReportizFlow

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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Phpgurukul	Employee Record Management System

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phpgurukul:employee_record_management_system:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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'}`

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

No data.

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