Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2023-24191 is a cross-site scripting issue in Online Food Ordering System v2. A crafted link could cause script to run in a user's browser through the signup.php redirect parameter. Business impact is limited but real: account phishing, session exposure, or content manipulation may be possible if users click attacker-controlled links.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate web application risk. Prioritize remediation for internet-facing deployments, especially where customers or staff authenticate through the affected application. The urgency is lower than unauthenticated remote code execution, but delay increases phishing and session-risk exposure.
Technical view
The CVE describes CWE-79 XSS in signup.php via the redirect parameter. CVSS 3.1 is 6.1 with network access, low complexity, no privileges, required user interaction, changed scope, and low confidentiality/integrity impact. The supplied metadata does not identify CPEs, vendor ownership, or an official patch.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely in public deployments of Online Food Ordering System v2 or forks using the same signup.php redirect handling. The CVE metadata lists affected vendor/product as n/a, so asset owners must confirm by code review and deployment inventory.
Exploitation context
No CISA KEV listing is provided, and the source bundle does not claim active exploitation. Exploitation requires user interaction, typically by convincing a user to open a malicious link targeting a vulnerable deployment.
Researcher notes
Evidence is limited to the CVE description, CVSS vector, CWE-79 classification, SourceCodester project reference, and a GitHub disclosure reference. Affected CPEs and official remediation details are absent, so validation should focus on deployed code and whether signup.php still trusts redirect input.
Mitigation direction
- Check the project and maintainer sources for any official fix or updated release.
- Validate or add strict allowlisting for redirect destinations in signup.php.
- Encode untrusted output before rendering it into HTML or JavaScript contexts.
- Add Content Security Policy as defense in depth, not a primary fix.
- Disable or restrict the vulnerable signup flow if it is unused.
- Regression test the redirect parameter after any code change.
Validation and detection
- Inventory deployments and forks of Online Food Ordering System v2.
- Review signup.php for user-controlled redirect handling.
- Confirm redirect values are validated against an allowlist.
- Run authorized XSS regression tests in a non-production environment.
- Review web logs for suspicious signup.php redirect usage.
- Document whether the instance is vendor code or a local fork.
Public sources used
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CWE-79: User-session and phishing behavior lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.1 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N2.82.7Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.1MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.