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Unauthenticated public signup endpoint reachable over the network; no complexity or privileges; partial database impact across all three dimensions with no scope change.
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A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Photo Share Website 1.0. This affects an unknown function of the file /social/ajax.php?action=signup. Performing a manipulation of the argument email results in sql injection. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit has been made public and could be used.
AnalysisAI
SQL injection in SourceCodester Photo Share Website 1.0 exposes the unauthenticated user registration endpoint (/social/ajax.php?action=signup) to database manipulation via the email parameter. The CVSS 4.0 vector confirms network-exploitable with no authentication, no complexity, and no special attack conditions, while the E:P modifier reflects publicly available exploit code hosted on GitHub. No active exploitation is confirmed in CISA KEV, but the combination of a zero-barrier attack surface and public POC code means any internet-exposed instance should be treated as immediately at risk.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability is a classic SQL Injection (CWE-89) within a PHP web application. The signup handler in /social/ajax.php accepts an email parameter that is concatenated directly into a backend SQL query without parameterization or sanitization, allowing an attacker to alter query logic. The affected product is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:sourcecodester:photo_share_website:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, distributed by SourceCodester - a platform that publishes open-source PHP applications primarily as academic and learning projects. The wildcard version in the CPE indicates no specific upper bound has been confirmed, suggesting all distributed releases may carry the flaw.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis for SourceCodester Photo Share Website 1.0; given the educational distribution model, an official patch may not be forthcoming. The primary fix is to rewrite the email parameter handling in /social/ajax.php to use parameterized queries or prepared statements (e.g., PHP PDO or MySQLi with bound parameters), replacing any direct string interpolation. As an immediate compensating control, restrict or disable public access to the /social/ajax.php?action=signup endpoint via web server configuration (e.g., Apache .htaccess or nginx location block) if public self-registration is not required - note this will break signup functionality. Deploying a WAF rule to detect SQL metacharacters (single quotes, UNION, comment sequences) in POST body parameters provides a secondary layer but can produce false positives on legitimate email addresses containing special characters. If this application is serving production data, migration to a maintained alternative is strongly recommended. VulDB advisory: https://vuldb.com/vuln/386956.
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EUVD-2026-54523
GHSA-37wh-mr6j-jq3m