CVE-2024-4075: Online Furniture Shopping XSS Vulnerability

CVE-2024-4075 Overview

CVE-2024-4075 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability [CWE-79] in Kashipara Online Furniture Shopping Ecommerce Website 1.0. The flaw resides in login.php, where the txtAddress parameter is rendered back to the browser without proper output encoding. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious URL that, when opened by a victim, executes arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser session. The issue was published to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) with identifier VDB-261801 and the exploit details are publicly disclosed.

Critical Impact
Successful exploitation enables session token theft, credential harvesting through injected forms, and redirection to attacker-controlled infrastructure within the context of the vulnerable application.

Affected Products

Aditya88 (Kashipara) Online Furniture Shopping Ecommerce Website 1.0
Vulnerable component: login.php
Vulnerable parameter: txtAddress

Discovery Timeline

2024-04-23 - CVE-2024-4075 published to NVD
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2024-4075

Vulnerability Analysis

The application accepts user-supplied input through the txtAddress argument in login.php and reflects that value in the HTTP response without HTML entity encoding or context-aware sanitization. Because the parameter is reachable over the network without authentication and requires only that a victim follow a crafted link, exploitation is straightforward. The scope-change property indicates the injected script executes in a security context beyond the vulnerable component, typically the user's browser session with access to cookies and stored credentials for the site.

Root Cause

The root cause is improper neutralization of input during web page generation, mapped to [CWE-79]. The login.php handler concatenates the raw txtAddress value into the HTML response body. No output encoding, no allow-list validation, and no Content Security Policy (CSP) are applied to constrain script execution.

Attack Vector

An attacker crafts a URL targeting login.php with a JavaScript payload embedded in the txtAddress parameter. Delivery relies on social engineering, such as phishing emails, instant messages, or malicious links posted on forums. When the victim clicks the link, the browser renders the reflected payload and executes attacker-controlled script within the origin of the vulnerable application. Public disclosure of exploit details lowers the barrier for opportunistic abuse. See the GitHub Vulnerability Report and VulDB entry #261801 for the disclosed proof-of-concept details.

No verified exploit code is reproduced here. The public reports linked above document the parameter, injection point, and payload format used to trigger the flaw.

Detection Methods for CVE-2024-4075

Indicators of Compromise

HTTP requests to login.php containing txtAddress values with <script>, onerror=, onload=, javascript:, or URL-encoded equivalents such as %3Cscript%3E.
Referer headers pointing to unfamiliar external domains that redirect users to the login endpoint.
Outbound browser connections from user workstations to attacker-controlled domains immediately following a visit to the vulnerable application.

Detection Strategies

Deploy web application firewall (WAF) rules that inspect the txtAddress parameter for HTML tags, event handler attributes, and script keywords.
Enable verbose logging on the web server for POST and GET requests to login.php and alert on payloads containing encoded angle brackets or JavaScript scheme prefixes.
Correlate authentication anomalies, such as session reuse from new IP addresses, with recent XSS payload delivery attempts.

Monitoring Recommendations

Forward web server access logs to a centralized analytics platform and build queries for reflected XSS payload patterns targeting txtAddress.
Monitor for browser telemetry showing script errors or unexpected DOM modifications on login pages.
Track user-reported redirects or unexpected popups when accessing the furniture shopping portal.

How to Mitigate CVE-2024-4075

Immediate Actions Required

Restrict access to the vulnerable application until a patched version is available, using network segmentation or authentication proxies.
Deploy a WAF rule that blocks requests to login.php where txtAddress contains HTML markup or script keywords.
Notify users of the risk and warn against clicking unsolicited links pointing to the login page.

Patch Information

At the time of NVD publication, no vendor patch has been referenced for Aditya88 Online Furniture Shopping Ecommerce Website 1.0. Consult the VulDB advisory for any subsequent vendor updates. Organizations that cannot obtain a fix should evaluate migration to an actively maintained e-commerce platform.

Workarounds

Implement a reverse proxy that HTML-encodes reflected parameters before responses reach the client.
Add a strict Content Security Policy header disallowing inline scripts and untrusted script sources.
Set the HttpOnly and Secure flags on session cookies to reduce the impact of successful script execution.
Apply input validation at an upstream gateway to reject requests containing <, >, or javascript: in txtAddress.

bash

# Example ModSecurity rule to block reflected XSS attempts against txtAddress
SecRule ARGS:txtAddress "@rx (?i)(<script|onerror=|onload=|javascript:|%3Cscript)" \
    "id:1004075,phase:2,deny,status:403,log,\
    msg:'CVE-2024-4075 XSS attempt in txtAddress parameter'"