InjectionWeakness · CWE-74

CVE-2026-9342

MEDIUM · 6.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-05-23
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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69/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable Zero-click

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 · unedited
A security flaw has been discovered in SourceCodester Hospitals Patient Records Management System 1.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /admin/patients/view_history.php. The manipulation of the argument ID results in sql injection. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks.

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 confidence

SQL injection vulnerability in SourceCodester Hospitals Patient Records Management System 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject malicious SQL queries via the ID parameter in /admin/patients/view_history.php. The lack of input sanitization or parameterized queries enables unauthenticated SQL injection attacks.

MitigationFix requires implementing prepared statements/parameterized queries for all database operations involving the ID parameter in view_history.php. Since this is a medical system with public exploits, immediate patching is critical.

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CVSS 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
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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 checks

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  1. Confirm application installation
    Locate SourceCodester Hospitals Patient Records Management System in your environment - check web server document roots, application directories, or deployment folders for files related to this hospital records system
    Affected if The application is not installed or has been removed
  2. Verify the application version
    Check the installed version of SourceCodester Hospitals Patient Records Management System - look for version files, about pages, or metadata that identifies the exact version (the vulnerability affects version 1.0)
    Affected if The installed version is 1.0 and matches the affected product
  3. Locate the vulnerable script
    Find the file /admin/patients/view_history.php within the application installation directory
    Affected if The file view_history.php exists in the /admin/patients/ directory
  4. Verify web accessibility
    Confirm the application is accessible via web browser or HTTP request at the expected URL path where view_history.php would be served
    Affected if The vulnerable endpoint is web-accessible without proper access controls blocking it
  5. Inspect the ID parameter handling
    Examine the source code of view_history.php and locate the code handling the ID parameter - check if the application uses parameterized queries/prepared statements or raw SQL concatenation with the ID input
    Affected if The ID parameter is used directly in SQL queries without parameterized queries or input sanitization

You are affected if you are running SourceCodester Hospitals Patient Records Management System version 1.0 with the view_history.php file accessible via web and the ID parameter handled without parameterized queries.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Fix requires implementing prepared statements/parameterized queries for all database operations involving the ID parameter in view_history.php. Since this is a medical system with public exploits, immediate patching is critical.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
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