VulnerabilityPublished 13 Jan 2024Updated 3 Jun 2025

CVE-2024-0500: SourceCodester House Rental Management System · Cross-site Scripting

Affects SourceCodester House Rental Management SystemSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 2.4 Low.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

2.4Low

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 42% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: High: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide significant (e.g., administrative) control over the vulnerable component that could affect component-wide settings and files.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 13 Jan 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
SourceCodester House Rental Management System	Affected =1.0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

European organizations should implement strict input validation and output encoding on the 'Name' field within the Manage Tenant Details component to prevent script injection. Employing a web application firewall (WAF) with rules targeting XSS payloads can provide an additional layer of defense. Regular security training for administrators to recognize and avoid triggering malicious scripts is advisable. Additionally, organizations should plan to update the software once a vendor patch is released and consider conducting a thorough security review of all input handling in the application to identify similar vulnerabilities.

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in SourceCodester House Rental Management System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Manage Tenant Details. The manipulation of the argument Name leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-250608.

Impact

For European organizations using the SourceCodester House Rental Management System 1.0, this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker with high privileges to inject malicious scripts into the tenant management interface. Although the impact is low, the injected scripts could be used to manipulate displayed data or perform limited integrity attacks, potentially misleading users or administrators. However, since there is no confidentiality or availability impact, the risk is primarily related to data integrity and user trust. The requirement for high privileges and user interaction reduces the likelihood of widespread exploitation. Nonetheless, organizations handling sensitive tenant data should be cautious as XSS vulnerabilities can sometimes be leveraged as part of more complex attack chains, including session hijacking or phishing within the application context.

Summary

CVE-2024-0500 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified in version 1.0 of the SourceCodester House Rental Management System, specifically within the Manage Tenant Details component. The vulnerability arises from improper sanitization or validation of the 'Name' argument, which allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts. This injection can be executed remotely, but requires the attacker to have high privileges (PR:H) and user interaction (UI:R) to trigger the exploit. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-79, which pertains to improper neutralization of input during web page generation, leading to XSS. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 2.4, indicating a low severity level, with no impact on confidentiality, limited impact on integrity, and no impact on availability. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), but exploitation requires authentication and user interaction, limiting the ease of exploitation. No public exploits are currently known to be in the wild, and no patches have been published yet. The vulnerability disclosure date is January 13, 2024.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 4 Jul 2025, 14:56 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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