CVE-2024-23882: Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory) · Cross-site Scripting
Affects Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory)Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC
- 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:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 26 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.
What to do
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Cups Easy Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory) | Affected
| Fixed in– |
AI-suggested
Organizations should immediately assess their use of Cups Easy (Purchase & Inventory) version 1.0 and prioritize upgrading to a patched version once available. In the absence of an official patch, temporary mitigations include implementing web application firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block malicious payloads targeting the taxcodeid parameter, particularly scripts or suspicious characters. Input validation and output encoding should be enforced at the application level to neutralize potentially harmful inputs. Additionally, organizations should educate users about the risks of clicking untrusted links and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) to reduce the impact of session hijacking. Monitoring web server logs for unusual requests to /cupseasylive/taxcodecreate.php and anomalous user activity can help detect exploitation attempts. Finally, session management should be hardened by setting secure cookie attributes (HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite) to limit cookie theft via XSS.
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/taxcodecreate.php, in the taxcodeid 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.