CVE-2019-8923

published 2019-05-14

CVE-2019-8923: XAMPP through 5.6.8 and previous allows SQL injection via the cds-fpdf.php jahr parameter. NOTE: This product is discontinued.

Priority P2 59 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

XAMPP through 5.6.8 and previous allows SQL injection via the cds-fpdf.php jahr parameter. NOTE: This product is discontinued.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apachefriends	xampp	<= 5.6.8	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /xampp/cds-fpdf.php↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests to cds-fpdf.php for unsanitized input in the 'jahr', 'interpret', and 'titel' parameters — cds-fpdf.php does not filter special characters (e.g. quotes, angle brackets) unlike cds.php. ↗
• → The attack is two-stage: a first POST/GET to cds.php stores the payload (persistent XSS/SQLi), and a second request to cds-fpdf.php triggers it. Correlate requests to both endpoints from the same source. ↗
• → Flag SQL injection attempts via the 'jahr' parameter in cds-fpdf.php as described in the CVE; inspect for SQL metacharacters or out-of-band payloads in that parameter. ↗

• · This vulnerability affects XAMPP versions up to and including 5.6.8; the product is discontinued so no patch will be issued — affected instances should be decommissioned or isolated. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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