CVE-2023-0905

HIGH

SourceCodester Employee Task Management System 1.0 - Improper Authentication via changePasswordForEmployee.php

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2023-0905. PoCs published by Muhammad Navaid Zafar Ansari.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a broken authentication vulnerability in Employee Task Management System v1.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to change passwords for any user by manipulating the user_id parameter in a POST request to changePasswordForEmployee.php.

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in SourceCodester Employee Task Management System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file changePasswordForEmployee.php. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-221454 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Muhammad Navaid Zafar Ansari · textwebappsphp

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51285

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This exploit demonstrates a broken authentication vulnerability in Employee Task Management System v1.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to change passwords for any user by manipulating the user_id parameter in a POST request to changePasswordForEmployee.php.

Classification

Working Poc 90%

Attack Type

Auth Bypass

Complexity

Trivial

Reliability

Reliable

Target: Employee Task Management System v1.0

No auth needed

Prerequisites: Access to the target application's changePasswordForEmployee.php endpoint

MITRE ATT&CK

T1110.001 - Password Guessing T1552 - Unsecured Credentials

devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory vdb-entry technical-description

https://vuldb.com/?id.221454

Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory signature permissions-required

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221454

Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit

https://github.com/navaidzansari/CVE_Demo/blob/main/2023/Employee%20Task%20Management%20System%20-%20Broken%20Authentication.md

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Scores

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.0319

EPSS Percentile 86.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE

CWE-287

Status published

Products (1)

employee_task_management_system_project/employee_task_management_system 1.0

Published Feb 18, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026