CVE-2021-42666

CVE-2021-42666 - SQL Injection vulnerability in the Engineers online portal system.

Technical description:

An SQL Injection vulnerability exists in the Engineers Online Portal system. An attacker can leverage the vulnerable "id" parameter in the "quiz_question.php" web page in order to manipulate the sql query performed. As a result he can extract sensitive data from the web server.

Affected components -

Vulnerable page - quiz_question.php

Vulnerable parameter - "id"

Steps to exploit:

Navigate to http://localhost/nia_munoz_monitoring_system/quiz_question.php
Insert your payload in the id parameter

Proof of concept (Poc) -

The following payload will allow you to extract the MySql server version running on the web server -

' union select NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,@@version,NULL,NULL,NULL;-- -

References -

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50453

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42666

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42666

Discovered by -