CVE-2024-1825: House Rental Management System XSS Vulnerability

CVE-2024-1825 Overview

CVE-2024-1825 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability [CWE-79] in CodeAstro House Rental Management System 1.0. The flaw resides in the User Registration Page, where the address parameter fails to sanitize user-supplied input before rendering. An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript payloads such as <img src="1" onerror="console.log(1)"> that execute in the browser of any user viewing the affected page. The vulnerability was disclosed publicly through VulDB with identifier VDB-254613.

Critical Impact
Attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victim browsers, enabling session hijacking, credential theft, and defacement of the rental management application.

Affected Products

CodeAstro House Rental Management System 1.0
Component: User Registration Page
Affected parameter: address

Discovery Timeline

2024-02-23 - CVE-2024-1825 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2024-1825

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting flaw in the User Registration workflow of CodeAstro House Rental Management System 1.0. The application accepts the address field during registration and later renders it in the browser without proper output encoding or input sanitization. Any HTML tags or script constructs submitted by the attacker are interpreted by the browser rather than displayed as literal text.

Exploitation requires no authentication and can be triggered remotely over the network. Successful exploitation depends on a victim viewing the page containing the injected payload, which satisfies the user-interaction requirement.

The EPSS score is 0.484%, indicating a relatively low observed exploitation probability. However, the public disclosure of the payload increases the risk of opportunistic use against unpatched deployments.

Root Cause

The root cause is missing input validation and output encoding on the address parameter of the User Registration Page. The application stores attacker-supplied HTML directly and reflects it into responses without context-aware escaping, violating standard XSS defenses defined by [CWE-79].

Attack Vector

The attack vector is network-based and unauthenticated. An attacker submits a registration request containing a malicious payload in the address field, for example <img src="1" onerror="console.log(1)">. When an administrator or other user renders the affected page, the injected script executes with the privileges of that user's session. See the VulDB entry for CVE-2024-1825 for the original disclosure and proof-of-concept context.

Detection Methods for CVE-2024-1825

Indicators of Compromise

HTTP POST requests to the registration endpoint containing HTML tags such as <img, <script, or event handlers like onerror=, onload=, onclick= within form fields.
Database records in user or address tables containing raw HTML or JavaScript constructs.
Unexpected outbound requests from administrator browsers to attacker-controlled domains after viewing registered user data.

Detection Strategies

Deploy a web application firewall (WAF) rule that inspects registration form parameters for HTML tags and event-handler attributes.
Review application access logs for POST bodies containing encoded or raw script payloads targeting the address field.
Perform static analysis of user-facing views to identify unescaped output of registration data.

Monitoring Recommendations

Monitor administrator sessions for anomalous JavaScript execution or DOM modifications on pages that render registration data.
Alert on newly registered accounts whose profile fields contain HTML metacharacters such as <, >, or ".
Correlate browser telemetry with server-side registration events to identify successful payload execution.

How to Mitigate CVE-2024-1825

Immediate Actions Required

Restrict public access to the User Registration Page until a fix is deployed, using network controls or an authentication gate.
Apply server-side input validation that rejects HTML metacharacters in the address field and other free-text registration inputs.
Enforce context-aware output encoding on all pages that render user-supplied data.
Implement a strict Content Security Policy (CSP) that blocks inline scripts and unauthorized external script sources.

Patch Information

No vendor patch is listed in NVD or VulDB at the time of writing. Operators of CodeAstro House Rental Management System 1.0 should contact the vendor for remediation guidance and monitor the VulDB advisory for CVE-2024-1825 for updates.

Workarounds

Place the application behind a WAF configured to block XSS payloads in registration parameters.
Sanitize existing database entries by stripping HTML tags from stored address values before rendering.
Set the HttpOnly and Secure flags on session cookies to reduce the impact of successful script execution.
Educate administrators to avoid viewing untrusted registration data in privileged browser sessions.

bash

# Example ModSecurity rule to block HTML tags in the address parameter
SecRule ARGS:address "@rx <[a-zA-Z/!]" \
    "id:1008251,phase:2,deny,status:403,\
    msg:'Potential XSS payload in address field (CVE-2024-1825)',\
    tag:'CWE-79'"