Executive brief
The Drug Recommendation System is a web application that helps medical professionals recommend medications to patients. A flaw in the user-editing page allows attackers to inject malicious SQL commands remotely without authentication, potentially exposing patient records, staff credentials, and enabling account takeover through direct database access.
Technical details
SQL injection vulnerability in the id parameter of /drug_recommender/Admin/edit_user.php via GET requests; user input is concatenated directly into SQL queries without sanitization or parameterized statements. Unauthenticated remote attack requires only network access; successful exploitation allows arbitrary SQL execution, database enumeration, and extraction of user and patient credentials from the MySQL backend.
Affected products
- SourceCodester Drug Recommendation System 1.0
Timeline
- 2026-09-20: disclosed: Publicly available exploit
- 2026-09-20: advisory