Atomicorp WAF Research Note: CVE-2023-0903

Employee Task Management System v1.0 - SQL Injection on edit-task.php

Research Notes

This page documents research related to exploit techniques, attack behaviors, testing results, and WAF rule interactions associated with this vulnerability.

Research finding: this note documents observed WAF protections relevant to exploit techniques associated with this vulnerability.

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Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Employee Task Management System 1.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file edit-task.php. The manipulation of the argument task_id leads to sql injection. The attack can be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221452.

Public Vulnerability References

• NVD
• CVE Record

CVE Details

• CVE: CVE-2023-0903
• Name: Employee Task Management System v1.0 - SQL Injection on edit-task.php
• Severity: HIGH
• CVSS: 8.8 (High)
• CVSS source: N/A
• Vendor: employee task management system project
• Product: employee task management system
• Latest protected observation: 2026-07-28
• Rule IDs observed: 340016

Test or Research Source

• Source: Exploit-DB 51287
• Tags: CVE-2023-0902, CVE-2023-0903, cve, exploitdb, http, replay

Research Note Context

This research note documents exploit-technique analysis associated with this vulnerability and references Atomicorp WAF protections observed during engineering review, testing, or validation activities.

Atomicorp security controls are generally designed to identify and mitigate attack techniques and exploit behaviors rather than individual CVE identifiers. As a result, protections developed for one vulnerability may also apply to related attack variants and future vulnerabilities using similar techniques.

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