Executive brief
vRestaurant is a Joomla extension used by businesses to manage restaurant bookings, online menus, and customer reviews. A security flaw in this component allows unauthorized individuals to access and extract sensitive information from the website's database. This could lead to the exposure of customer details, administrative data, and internal business records, potentially resulting in data theft or service disruption.
Technical details
An SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Wdmtech vRestaurant component (version 1.9.4) for Joomla. The flaw is located within the 'menu-listing-layout' endpoint, specifically due to improper neutralization of the 'keysearch' parameter in POST requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted SQL payloads to the vulnerable endpoint. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to bypass authentication, extract database schema information (such as table names), and retrieve sensitive data from the underlying database. Public exploit code (PoC) has been available since 2019.
Affected products
- Wdmtech vRestaurant 1.9.4
Timeline
- 2019-01-23: disclosed: Initial public exploit published on Exploit-DB
- 2026-06-19: advisory: CVE record published and NVD dataset updated