CVE-2023-41522
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 · uneditedStudent Attendance Management System v1 was discovered to contain multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in createStudents.php via the Id, firstname, and admissionNumber parameters.
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 · high confidenceSQL injection vulnerabilities in Student Attendance Management System v1's createStudents.php allow attackers to manipulate SQL queries through the Id, firstname, and admissionNumber parameters, potentially enabling unauthorized database access, data exfiltration, or data manipulation.
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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
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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 Student Attendance Management System installationLocate the web application's root directory and identify if the 'Student Attendance Management System' PHP application is deployed. Check for typical installation paths like /var/www/html/ or C:\xampp\htdocs\ or review web server configuration for the application root.Affected if The application directory contains PHP files for a student attendance system, specifically a file named createStudents.php in the admin or student management module.
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Verify the vulnerable file existsSearch for the file createStudents.php within the application directory structure. This file typically resides in admin/ or student/ subdirectories.Affected if The file createStudents.php exists in the application web root or subdirectories, indicating the vulnerable component is present.
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Identify if user input is accepted on vulnerable parametersReview the createStudents.php source code to determine if it processes GET or POST parameters named 'Id', 'firstname', or 'admissionNumber' and incorporates them into SQL queries without prepared statements.Affected if The code accepts Id, firstname, or admissionNumber parameters via GET/POST and directly concatenates them into SQL query strings without parameter binding.
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Check if application is accessible to untrusted usersDetermine if the createStudents.php endpoint is accessible without authentication or with weak authentication. Review the application's login mechanism and session handling around this file.Affected if The createStudents.php script can be accessed by unauthenticated or low-privilege users, allowing them to supply malicious SQL input.
Your environment is affected if the Student Attendance Management System v1.0 is deployed and the createStudents.php file accepts Id, firstname, or admissionNumber parameters that are directly embedded into SQL queries without parameterized statements.
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 query construction with parameterized queries (prepared statements) for all three affected parameters; implement input validation and apply vendor patches if available.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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