CVE-2026-7117

Root

Cause

The vulnerability resides in the approve.php file of the Employee Management System 1.0. The application directly concatenates user-supplied id and token parameters into an SQL UPDATE statement without parameterization or sanitization [1]. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary SQL commands.

Exploitation

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted GET request to /approve.php?id=...&token=.... The proof-of-concept demonstrates a time-based blind SQL injection using a payload like (select*from(select+sleep(5)union/**/select+1)a) to cause a measurable delay in the response [1]. No authentication is required, and the attack can be executed over the network.

Impact

Successful exploitation enables an attacker to manipulate the approval logic (e.g., unauthorized status changes), infer database structure or data through blind techniques, and degrade performance by triggering expensive database operations [1]. The impact is limited by the database user's permissions, but the vulnerability is publicly known and exploit code is available.

Mitigation

As of the publication date, no official patch has been released. The vendor (code-projects.org) provides the source code, and users are advised to implement parameterized queries (prepared statements) to prevent SQL injection. Until a fix is applied, the application remains at risk.