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SQL Injection in SourceCodester Payroll Management and Information System v1.0 view_employee.php

IdentifiersCVE-2026-37347CWE-89· Improper Neutralization of Special…

CVE-2026-37347 is a SQL injection vulnerability in SourceCodester Payroll Management and Information System v1.0. According to the provided content, the flaw is present in the /payroll/view_employee.php file. The issue allows attacker-controlled input to be incorporated into SQL queries without proper sanitization or parameterization, enabling unauthorized database query manipulation. The available context does not identify the exact vulnerable parameter or code path within view_employee.php, but it does specifically place the vulnerability in that file.

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Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

Successful exploitation can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to manipulate backend SQL queries against the application's database. Based on the provided CVSS v3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N), the primary impacts are high confidentiality and high integrity compromise, with no stated availability impact. In practice, this may enable unauthorized access to sensitive employee or payroll-related data and modification of database contents accessible through the vulnerable query context.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If an official fix is not yet available, restrict network access to the affected application, especially the /payroll/view_employee.php endpoint, to trusted users or internal networks only. Deploy WAF rules or equivalent request filtering to detect and block common SQL injection payloads, monitor application and database logs for anomalous query behavior, and minimize database account privileges used by the application to reduce impact. These are compensating controls only and do not eliminate the underlying flaw.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade or patch SourceCodester Payroll Management and Information System v1.0 to a fixed version if one becomes available. At the code level, remediate the issue in /payroll/view_employee.php by replacing dynamically constructed SQL statements with parameterized queries or prepared statements, enforcing strict server-side input validation, and ensuring user-supplied input is not concatenated directly into SQL commands. Because the provided content does not identify a vendor-issued fix, specific patched version information is currently not available.
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EXPOSURE SURFACE

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

3 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Social activity1

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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2026-37347
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-37347
MITRE CWE · CWE-89
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements…
github.com
github.com/mt-0505/cve-report/blob/main/sourcecodester/payroll-management-and-information-system/SQL-2.md