# CVE-2024-8708: SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System categories.php cross site scripting

> Remote attackers can inject malicious scripts into the categories.php file of the Best House Rental Management System, potentially compromising user sessions.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 12 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fp8m-7cjh-3mwc

## What is CVE-2024-8708?

CVE-2024-8708 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System, published on 12 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System 1.0. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file categories.php. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8708?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mayurik Best House Rental Management System.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8708?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8708 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8708 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System

- [CVE-2024-48579](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-48579/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-46374](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46374/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-46375](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46375/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-46376](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46376/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-46377](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46377/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8708 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8708 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System, published on 12 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SourceCodester Best House Rental Management System. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8708/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8708/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8708
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8708
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8708

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8708/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.