CVE-2026-11558: CodeAstro Payroll System SQL injection in home_salary.php

CVE-2026-11558 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.3 · Published 2026-06-08

CodeAstro Payroll System 1.0 contains a security flaw in its salary management component. This vulnerability allows an attacker to interfere with the underlying database by submitting specially crafted information through the salary rate fields. If exploited, this could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive employee financial data, modification of payroll records, or disruption of the payroll system's operations.

Technologies: CodeAstro Payroll System. Vendors: CodeAstro.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-11558 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-11558 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-11558?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.3, published 8 June 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
CodeAstro Payroll System 1.0.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-11558?
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-2026-11558 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-11558?
Check whether you run CodeAstro Payroll 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

A SQL injection vulnerability exists in CodeAstro Payroll System 1.0 within the /home_salary.php file. The application fails to properly sanitize or validate the 'rate' and 'salary_rate' POST parameters before using them in SQL queries. An authenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending crafted payloads (such as time-based blind SQL injection) to manipulate database queries. This can result in unauthorized data retrieval, modification of database records, or full database compromise. The vulnerability has been publicly disclosed with proof-of-concept exploits available.

Affected products

  • CodeAstro Payroll System 1.0

Timeline

  • 2026-05-25: disclosed: Public disclosure via GitHub issues
  • 2026-06-08: advisory: CVE published and NVD entry created

References

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