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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-21260

Online Invoicing System (OIS) is open source software which is a lean invoicing system for small businesses, consultants and freelancers created using AppGini. In OIS version 4.0 there is a stored XSS which can enables an attacker takeover of the admin account through a payload that extracts a csrf token and sends a request to change password. It has been found that Item description is reflected without sanitization in app/items_view.php which enables the malicious scenario.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:31 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-21260

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Jan 2021, 18:15 UTC

Online Invoicing System (OIS) is open source software which is a lean invoicing system for small businesses, consultants and freelancers created using AppGini. In OIS version 4.0 there is a stored XSS which can enables an attacker takeover of the admin account through a payload that extracts a csrf token and sends a request to change password. It has been found that Item description is reflected without sanitization in app/items_view.php which enables the malicious scenario.

osv:CVE-2021-21260
Complete source record
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  "id": "2871b4953f1919b503e1039243577c7429e54471e02f8e3fd2c6be34bc34b5d0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-21260",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-21260",
    "summary": "Online Invoicing System (OIS) is open source software which is a lean invoicing system for small businesses, consultants and freelancers created using AppGini. In OIS version 4.0 there is a stored XSS which can enables an attacker takeover of the admin account through a payload that extracts a csrf token and sends a request to change password. It has been found that Item description is reflected without sanitization in app/items_view.php which enables the malicious scenario.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-21260",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
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        "GHSA-rm79-5596-r7q4"
      ],
      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                {
                  "fixed": "4e4d8d0a4017f0b3d56b281b47223785dcb7ffec"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
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                    "range": [
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                  }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:27.817422758Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/bigprof-software/online-invoicing-system/releases/tag/4.2",
        "https://github.com/bigprof-software/online-invoicing-system/security/advisories/GHSA-rm79-5596-r7q4"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385383,
  "published_at": "2021-01-22T18:15:12.61+00:00"
}