CVE-2024-33968
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 · uneditedSQL injection vulnerability in PayPal, Credit Card and Debit Card Payment affecting version 1.0. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted query to the server and retrieve all the information stored in it through the following 'Attendance' and 'YearLevel' in '/AttendanceMonitoring/report/index.php' parameter.
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 confidenceUnauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the AttendanceMonitoring report endpoint (/AttendanceMonitoring/report/index.php) where the 'Attendance' and 'YearLevel' parameters are not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to inject malicious SQL queries and extract sensitive data from the database.
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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= 1.0= 1.0= 1.0= 1.0= 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
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 Janobe productLocate and inspect the application to determine which Janobe product is deployed (Credit Card, Debit Card Payment, Paypal, School Attendance Monitoring System, or School Event Management System). Check the application name, title, or documentation files for product identification.Affected if Any of the five Janobe products (Credit Card, Debit Card Payment, Paypal, School Attendance Monitoring System, or School Event Management System) is installed.
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Verify the application version is 1.0Check the application version by inspecting version files, footer text, about pages, or configuration files. Compare the installed version against the affected range (= 1.0).Affected if The installed version equals 1.0.
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Confirm the AttendanceMonitoring module existsInspect the web root directory for the presence of the /AttendanceMonitoring/report/ folder and the index.php file. Check if the path /AttendanceMonitoring/report/index.php is accessible on the server.Affected if The AttendanceMonitoring/report/index.php file exists and is accessible via web request.
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Test the vulnerable parametersSend a benign HTTP GET or POST request to /AttendanceMonitoring/report/index.php with test values in the 'Attendance' and 'YearLevel' parameters. Observe if the application processes the input without proper escaping or error handling.Affected if The application accepts input in the Attendance and YearLevel parameters without rejecting or escaping SQL special characters.
If a Janobe product version 1.0 is running and the AttendanceMonitoring/report/index.php endpoint is accessible with the Attendance and YearLevel parameters, the 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 dataImplement prepared statements/parameterized queries for all SQL queries in the affected report functionality, and apply proper input validation on the Attendance and YearLevel parameters.
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