Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System (CVE-2026-15493)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System (CVE-2026-15493). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability was detected in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System up to 70b91fe38f4195b701a45f0edcd4f42d5f64aeee. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file absent.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument export_date results in cross site scripting. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. This product is using a rolling release to provide continious delivery. Therefore, no version details for affected nor updated releases are available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-15493 has been found in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 3.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System CVE-2026-15493" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-15493 (Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 3.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System.
Severity: Low (CVSS 3.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Akpali9 Attendance-Management-System を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web cna@vuldb.com
- web cna@vuldb.com
- web cna@vuldb.com
- web cna@vuldb.com
- web github.com