CVE-2024-44812
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 Online Complaint Site v.1.0 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the username and password parameters in the /admin.index.php component.
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 confidenceSQL injection vulnerability in the Online Complaint Site v1.0 admin login page (/admin/index.php). The username and password parameters accept unsanitized user input that gets directly concatenated into SQL queries, allowing remote attackers to inject malicious SQL statements to bypass authentication and escalate privileges to administrator.
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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 application identity and versionIdentify if the deployed application is Janobe Online Complaint Site and note its exact version number. Check the application source files, README, or any version marker for '1.0'.Affected if The application is Janobe Online Complaint Site version 1.0
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Locate the admin login scriptNavigate to the web root directory and locate the file at /admin/index.php (or the admin login script if path differs in your installation).Affected if The admin login script exists and is accessible via web request to /admin/index.php
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Inspect the SQL query handling in the login scriptOpen the admin login PHP file and examine the code handling the username and password parameters. Look for SQL query construction where these parameters are used.Affected if The code directly concatenates user input from $username or $password variables into SQL queries without using prepared statements or parameter binding
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Verify lack of input sanitizationCheck the login processing code for any use of mysqli_prepare, PDO::prepare, or other parameterized query functions. Also check for input validation functions applied to the username and password before database operations.Affected if No prepared statements or input validation are present, and raw user input flows directly into the SQL query strings
If the application is Janobe Online Complaint Site v1.0 and the admin login script contains direct SQL query concatenation without prepared statements for the username/password fields, the environment is vulnerable to SQL injection.
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 for all authentication-related database operations. Additionally, implement proper input validation and output escaping to prevent SQL injection throughout the application.
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