Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-105178 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-105178 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-105178?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.7, published 5 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- SourceCodester Drug Recommendation System 1.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-105178?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-105178 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-105178?
- Check whether you run SourceCodester Drug Recommendation System at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in /Admin/add_symptom.php where the txtname parameter is processed with mysqli_real_escape_string but is still vulnerable to SQL injection. An unauthenticated remote attacker can craft a malicious SQL payload in the symptom name input to execute arbitrary database commands, bypassing the insufficient escaping mechanism.
Affected products
- SourceCodester Drug Recommendation System 1.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-05: disclosed