CVE-2025-1963
📋 TL;DR
This critical SQL injection vulnerability in Projectworlds Online Hotel Booking 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 'checkin' parameter in reservation.php. This can lead to unauthorized data access, modification, or deletion. Any organization using this software is affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Projectworlds Online Hotel Booking
📦 What is this software?
Online Hotel Booking by Projectworlds
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete database compromise including credential theft, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and potential system takeover via SQL injection leading to remote code execution.
Likely Case
Unauthorized access to sensitive booking data, customer information theft, and potential database manipulation or destruction.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper input validation, parameterized queries, and network segmentation preventing database access.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploit details are publicly available on GitHub, making this easily weaponizable by attackers with basic SQL injection knowledge.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Unknown
Vendor Advisory: None found
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
No official patch available. Consider migrating to alternative software or implementing workarounds.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Input Validation and Sanitization
allImplement strict input validation for the checkin parameter to only accept valid date formats
Modify reservation.php to validate checkin parameter using PHP filter functions or regex patterns
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
allDeploy WAF rules to block SQL injection attempts targeting the checkin parameter
Add WAF rule: Block requests with SQL keywords in checkin parameter
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Remove or disable reservation.php file if not essential
- Implement network segmentation to isolate the booking system from critical databases
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Test the checkin parameter in reservation.php with SQL injection payloads like ' OR '1'='1Check Version:
Check software version in admin panel or readme filesVerify Fix Applied:
Verify that SQL injection payloads no longer work and return proper error handling📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual SQL errors in web server logs
- Multiple failed login attempts following SQL injection patterns
- Unexpected database queries from web application
Network Indicators:
- HTTP requests with SQL keywords in checkin parameter
- Unusual database traffic patterns from web server
SIEM Query:
source="web_logs" AND ("checkin" AND ("OR", "UNION", "SELECT", "--", "'"))