CVE-2026-38567

Critical

Published: 11 May 2026

Published

11 May 2026

Modified

12 May 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0050 38.8th percentile

Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-38567 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Sourcecodester (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 38.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-29115

Vulnerability details

HireFlow v1.2 is vulnerable to SQL injection in the /login and /search endpoints. User-supplied input is concatenated directly into SQL queries without parameterization. An unauthenticated attacker can bypass authentication by supplying a crafted username (e.g. admin'--) or extract the full…

contents of the database including user credentials via UNION-based injection at the /search endpoint.

CWE(s): CWE-89

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1213.006 Databases Collection

Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.

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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public web endpoints directly enables remote exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) and extraction of credentials/data from the backend database (T1213.006).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0