SQL Injection vulnerability from phpgurukul Boat Booking System 1.0 (/admin/password-recovery.php)

CVE-2024-10157

A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Boat Booking System 1.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the file /admin/password-recovery.php of the component Reset Your Password Page. The manipulation of the argument username with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Affected Project: Boat Booking System 1.0

Official Website: https://phpgurukul.com/boat-booking-system-using-php-and-mysql/

Version: 1.0

Related Code file: /admin/password-recovery.php

Injection parameter: username

Vulnerability Description

When attempting to reset the password, username parameter is vulnerable to SQL injection vulnerability.

Demonstration

Users can try to reset the password:

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Intercept the traffic using Burp Suite:

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Now copy-paste the traffic and save it in to reset-pwd.req and run sqlmap against it: sqlmap -r reset-pwd.req --batch

sqlmap automatically exploit the vulnerability:

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