CVE-2026-2172
Published: 08 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-2172 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Fabian Online Application System For Admission. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 30.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2026-2172 is a SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in the code-projects Online Application System for Admission version 1.0. The flaw resides in an unknown functionality of the file enrollment/index.php within the Login Endpoint component. Published on 2026-02-08, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L), rated as high severity.
The vulnerability enables remote attackers to launch SQL injection attacks without requiring privileges or user interaction. Exploitation involves manipulating inputs to the affected endpoint, potentially allowing limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption.
Advisories from VulDB detail the issue at https://vuldb.com/?id.344873 and related entries like https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.344873 and https://vuldb.com/?submit.749253, with the project site at https://code-projects.org/. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized by attackers. No specific patches are mentioned in available details.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-5778
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was determined in code-projects Online Application System for Admission 1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file enrollment/index.php of the component Login Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead to sql injection. The attack can…
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be launched remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized.
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Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing web login endpoint directly enables remote exploitation of the application without auth.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation of all inputs to the login endpoint, blocking the crafted SQL payloads that constitute this CVE.
Limits database account privileges so that even a successful SQL injection yields only minimal data or command impact.
Enables monitoring and alerting on anomalous SQL statements or error patterns originating from the enrollment/index.php endpoint.