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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

CVE-2024-12895

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability has been found in TreasureHuntGame TreasureHunt up to 963e0e0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function console_log of the file TreasureHunt/checkflag.php. The manipulation of the argument problema leads to sql injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The identifier of the patch is 8bcc649abc35b7734951be084bb522a532faac4e. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-74 - Injection

Listed as the number one web application security risk on the 'OWASP Top Ten', injection attacks are widespread and dangerous, especially in legacy applications. Injection attacks are a class of vulnerabilities in which an attacker injects untrusted data into a web application that gets processed by an interpreter, altering the program's execution. This can result in data loss/theft, loss of data integrity, denial of service, and even compromising the entire system.

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