CVE-2021-42666 (GCVE-0-2021-42666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-05 12:24 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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