CVE-2025-40980
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-07-31
Last updated on: 2025-07-31
Assigner: Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A. (INCIBE)
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| ultimatefosters | ultimatepos | 6.4 |
| ultimatefosters | ultimatepos | 6.7 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-79 | 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. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) issue in UltimatePOS. It occurs because the application does not properly validate user inputs in the 'name' parameter when editing a product via the '/products/<PRODUCT_ID>/edit' endpoint using a POST request. An attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted input that gets stored and later executed in the context of an authenticated user's browser, potentially stealing their session cookies.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to execute malicious scripts in the browser of an authenticated user. This can lead to theft of session cookies, which may enable the attacker to hijack the user's session and gain unauthorized access to the application with the user's privileges.