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CVE-2024-23860: Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory) · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
8.2High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 37% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 26 Jan 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Cups Easy Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory)Affected
  • =1.0
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

  1. Immediate mitigation should focus on educating users to avoid clicking suspicious or unsolicited links, especially those targeting the currencylist.php endpoint with unusual parameters.
  2. Implement Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block malicious payloads targeting the 'description' parameter.
  3. Apply strict Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of inline scripts and reduce the impact of XSS attacks.
  4. Conduct a thorough code review and implement proper output encoding and input validation for all user-supplied data, particularly in the affected endpoint.
  5. Monitor web server logs for unusual requests or patterns indicative of exploitation attempts.
  6. Coordinate with the vendor for an official patch or update and prioritize its deployment once available.
  7. Consider isolating or restricting access to the Cups Easy application to trusted networks or VPN users to reduce exposure.
  8. Regularly update session management practices, such as using HttpOnly and Secure flags on cookies, to limit cookie theft impact.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory), version 1.0, whereby user-controlled inputs are not sufficiently encoded, resulting in a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via /cupseasylive/currencylist.php, in the description parameter. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to send a specially crafted URL to an authenticated user and steal their session cookie credentials.

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