Executive brief
The itsourcecode Hospital Management System, a software platform used for managing medical facility operations, contains a security vulnerability in its medicine management component. An attacker with basic user credentials can exploit this flaw to gain unauthorized access to the underlying database. This could lead to the theft of sensitive patient information, tampering with medical records, or disruption of hospital services.
Technical details
A SQL injection vulnerability exists in itsourcecode Hospital Management System 1.0 within the /ajaxmedicine.php file. The root cause is the application's failure to properly sanitize or validate the 'medicineid' GET parameter before using it in a database query. An authenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted SQL payloads (including boolean-based blind, error-based, and UNION-based techniques) to manipulate database queries. Successful exploitation allows for unauthorized data extraction, modification, or deletion. A public exploit (PoC) using sqlmap has been disclosed. No official patch is currently noted, but remediation should involve implementing prepared statements and input validation.
Affected products
- itsourcecode Hospital Management System Project In PHP 1.0
Timeline
- 2026-05-27: disclosed: Initial vulnerability report on GitHub
- 2026-06-28: advisory: NVD publication date