CVE-2018-20479

An issue was discovered in S-CMS 1.0

published December 26, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
66.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

⚠️ A sneaky SQL injection lurks in S-CMS 1.0—an attacker can manipulate the news info retrieval by exploiting the S_id parameter! 🔥 Think of it like a restaurant where a diner can sneak into the kitchen and change the order for everyone else—if they know just the right words to say. With this flaw, an attacker can serve up all sorts of unwanted surprises from the database! If someone exploits this vulnerability, they can craft malicious SQL commands that could compromise your database. Imagine a rogue chef changing the recipe book to include rotten ingredients—confidential data could be at risk!

Put simply

Think of it like a restaurant where a diner can sneak into the kitchen and change the order for everyone else—if they know just the right words to say. With this flaw, an attacker can serve up all sorts of unwanted surprises from the database! This SQL injection vulnerability appears in the wap_index.php script, allowing attackers to manipulate the S_id parameter to execute arbitrary SQL queries on the database.

What to do

If someone exploits this vulnerability, they can craft malicious SQL commands that could compromise your database. Imagine a rogue chef changing the recipe book to include rotten ingredients—confidential data could be at risk! To secure your application, patch S-CMS to the latest version, validate and sanitize user input promptly, and employ prepared statements to fortify the database queries. You’ve got this! Fixing this vulnerability will help make your application a safer place. 🛡️

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01135 · 66.2th percentile
Published
2018-12-26T03:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 DEC 03:00Z
    An issue was discovered in S-CMS 1.0
    cvelistv5