CVE-2024-1878
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 Employee Management System 1.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /myprofile.php. The manipulation of the argument id with the input 1%20or%201=1 leads to sql injection. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-254726 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.
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 confidenceA SQL injection vulnerability exists in SourceCodester Employee Management System 1.0 in the /myprofile.php file. The 'id' parameter is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary SQL statements via input such as '1 or 1=1'. This can lead to unauthorized database access, data exfiltration, or potentially remote code execution depending on database configuration.
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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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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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Identify the installed applicationLocate the Employee Management System application on your server. Look for a directory containing myprofile.php file, typically in the web root. Check application branding or README files for the product name and version.Affected if The application is SourceCodester or Razormist Employee Management System version 1.0
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Verify the vulnerable file existsConfirm that the file /myprofile.php exists in your web application's directory structure.Affected if The myprofile.php file is present in the application root
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Examine the SQL query in myprofile.phpOpen myprofile.php and search for SQL queries that use the 'id' parameter. Look for patterns like $id being directly concatenated into SELECT statements without sanitization or prepared statements.Affected if The code contains SQL queries with the 'id' parameter used in string concatenation or without parameterized binding
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Check if the id parameter is processed unsafelyReview how the 'id' parameter is received (via $_GET, $_POST, or $_REQUEST) and whether it undergoes any sanitization (such as mysqli_real_escape_string, htmlspecialchars, or type casting to integer) before being used in SQL queries.Affected if The 'id' parameter is used in SQL queries without proper sanitization or prepared statement binding
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Test the parameter for SQL injectionIf you have a testing environment, send a request to myprofile.php with an id parameter value such as '1 OR 1=1' and observe if the application returns unexpected data or SQL errors.Affected if The application returns different or additional data than expected, or displays SQL error messages, indicating the injection was successful
You are affected if you are running SourceCodester/Razormist Employee Management System version 1.0 and the myprofile.php file contains SQL queries where the 'id' parameter is used without parameterized queries or input sanitization.
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 parameterized queries or prepared statements in myprofile.php and all other files handling user input. Apply input validation and output encoding as defense-in-depth measures.
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