SQL Injection in Employee Recruitment System Password Reset

A vulnerability has been found in krupalshah EmployeeRecruitmentSystem up to 922ff6d208278282e7c8e36d70d9ae356adec9fe. Affected by this issue is the function mysql_query of the file source/authprocessing.php of the component Forgot Password Handler. Such manipulation of the argument fpemail leads to sql injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This product does not use versioning. This is why information about affected and unaffected releases are unavailable. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

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Analysis

This vulnerability is a remote SQL injection flaw in the Forgot Password Handler component of the krupalshah EmployeeRecruitmentSystem. An attacker can manipulate the fpemail parameter in the authprocessing.php file to inject arbitrary SQL commands, allowing unauthorized database access, data exfiltration, or modification. With a CVSS score of 7.3, this poses a high risk to any organization using this recruitment system, particularly affecting HR departments and job applicants whose personal and employment data could be compromised. The public disclosure and lack of versioning control make this especially dangerous, as attackers can easily identify and exploit vulnerable instances without uncertainty about patch levels.

Casky's 323 matched skills detect this attack through Claude AI's analysis of initial access techniques (TA0001) and persistence mechanisms (TA0043) mapped to CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements) and CWE-89 (SQL Injection). Practitioners using Casky would observe findings indicating suspicious SQL query patterns in authentication logs, unusual database access attempts through the password reset endpoint, and anomalous parameter values containing SQL metacharacters in fpemail submissions. The platform's extended reasoning capabilities would correlate these indicators with known password reset abuse patterns, helping security teams identify exploitation attempts before database compromise occurs and prioritize remediation of this high-severity entry point.

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323 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-108806.

Abuse of Public-Facing API: Mobile API Abuse

mobile security · low

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abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

red teaming · high

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abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

red teaming · high

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0001 TA0043

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