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CVE-2021-42668

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—💥 PoC

A SQL Injection vulnerability exists in Sourcecodester Engineers Online Portal in PHP via the id parameter in the my_classmates.php web page.. As a result, an attacker can extract sensitive data from the web server and in some cases can use this vulnerability in order to get a remote code execution on the remote web server.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

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