CVE-2023-1053
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Music Gallery Site 1.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file view_category.php. The manipulation of the argument id leads to sql injection. The attack may be initiated remotely. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221819.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA SQL injection vulnerability exists in the view_category.php file of SourceCodester Music Gallery Site 1.0. The id parameter is not properly sanitized before being used in database queries, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary SQL commands.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 1.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm product and versionCheck if the deployed application is SourceCodester Music Gallery Site version 1.0. Look for version identifiers in the application metadata, about page, or source code headers.Affected if The application is Music Gallery Site version 1.0 from SourceCodester.
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Locate view_category.phpSearch the web root for the file view_category.php. Common paths may include the root directory or a subdirectory like /admin/, /includes/, or /pages/. Use 'find' or file search utilities.Affected if The file view_category.php exists in the deployed application.
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Inspect the id parameter handlingOpen view_category.php and search for code that retrieves the 'id' parameter from GET or POST requests (e.g., $_GET['id'] or $_POST['id']). Examine how this parameter is used in SQL queries.Affected if The code contains an 'id' parameter from user input directly used in a SQL query without sanitization.
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Verify lack of parameterized queriesExamine the SQL queries in view_category.php. Look for patterns like 'SELECT * FROM ... WHERE id = ' . $_GET['id'] or similar concatenation of the id parameter into the query string.Affected if SQL queries concatenate the 'id' parameter directly without using prepared statements, mysqli_prepare, or PDO with parameter binding.
If you have Music Gallery Site 1.0 with view_category.php present and the code contains direct SQL concatenation of the 'id' parameter, your environment is affected by this SQL injection vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataReplace dynamic SQL queries with prepared statements/parameterized queries in view_category.php, or deploy a WAF to block SQL injection payloads until the code can be patched. Audit other files for similar injection vulnerabilities.
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