Vulnerability · Published Nov 5, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42666
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 4.5% (higher than 92% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)4.5%top 8.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
A SQL Injection vulnerability exists in Sourcecodester Engineers Online Portal in PHP via the id parameter to quiz_question.php, which could let a malicious user extract sensitive data from the web server and in some cases use this vulnerability in order to get a remote code execution on the remote web server.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/nu11secur1ty/CVE-nu11secur1ty/tree/main/vendors/janobe/CVE-nu11-101321 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/13115/engineers-online-portal-php.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/TheHackingRabbi/CVE-2021-42666 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50453 x_refsource_MISC