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CVE-2021-42670

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—💥 PoC

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

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

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Affected technologies (1)

Engineers Online Portal Project — Engineers Online Portal

CWEs

References

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