Unauthenticated administrator access via staff-login SQL injection
Published Sep 28, 2023 · Updated Sep 23, 2024
SQL injection in Projectworlds Hospital Management System in PHP 378c157 allows remote attackers to bypass staff authentication. The hms-staff.php login passes attacker-controlled email, password, and role values to login(), which embeds them directly in SELECT statements after applying only HTML entity encoding. The public proof of concept reaches the staff login without credentials and establishes an administrator session, exposing administrative hospital functions.
Summary
What happened
SQL injection in Projectworlds Hospital Management System in PHP 378c157 allows remote attackers to bypass staff authentication. The hms-staff.php login passes attacker-controlled email, password, and role values to login(), which embeds them directly in SELECT statements after applying only HTML entity encoding. The public proof of concept reaches the staff login without credentials and establishes an administrator session, exposing administrative hospital functions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-5004
- Published
- Sep 28, 2023
- Updated
- Sep 23, 2024
- Vendor
- Projectworlds
- Product
- Hospital Management System in PHP
- Classifications
- CWE-89, CAPEC-7, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 28, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 23, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2018-06-17
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Public exploit references
- Fluid Attacks staff-login proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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