Attacker Value
Very High
CVE-2021-38840
CVE-2021-38840
(Last updated October 07, 2023) ▾
MITRE ATT&CK
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Description
SQL Injection can occur in Simple Water Refilling Station Management System 1.0 via the water_refilling/classes/Login.php username parameter.
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Technical Analysis
CVE-2021-38840
Vendor
Software
Description:
The Water Refilling System – PHP (by: oretnom23 ) v1.0 is vulnerable to remote SQL-Injection-Bypass-Authentication + XSS-Stored Hijacking PHPSESSID
- m0re info: https://portswigger.net/support/using-sql-injection-to-bypass-authentication.
The parameter (username) from the login form is not protected correctly and there is no security and escaping from malicious payloads.
When the user will sending a malicious query or malicious payload to the MySQL server he can bypass the login credentials and take control of the administer account.
- XSS – Stored PHPSESSID Vulnerable
- The vulnerable XSS app: is “maintenance”, parameters: “name” After the successful SQL injection, the malicious user can be storing an XSS payload whit who can take the
active PHPSESSID session.
- remote PHPSESSID – Injection
- After the successful XSS attack the malicious user can take control of the administrative account of the system from everywhere
by using the PHPSESSID, and then he can make a lot of bad things!
CONCLUSION: This vendor must STOP creating all these broken projects and vulnerable software programs, probably he is not a developer!
BR
- [+] @nu11secur1ty System Administrator – Infrastructure and Penetration Testing Engineer
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Proof:
BR nu11secur1ty
CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Base Score:
9.8 Critical
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
3.9
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High
General Information
Vendors
- simple water refilling station management system project
Products
- simple water refilling station management system 1.0
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