CVE-2025-1172
Published: 11 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-1172 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in 1000Projects Bookstore Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 33.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly prevents SQL injection by validating and sanitizing the bcid parameter in addtocart.php to block malicious SQL payloads.
Requires timely identification, reporting, and patching of the SQL injection flaw in Bookstore Management System 1.0.
Enables vulnerability scanning to identify the SQL injection vulnerability in addtocart.php for subsequent remediation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection vulnerability in public-facing web application (addtocart.php) enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), abuse of server software component via injected SQL (T1505 as cited in advisory), and collection from databases (T1213.006) as demonstrated by POC extracting database names.
NVD Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in 1000 Projects Bookstore Management System 1.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file addtocart.php. The manipulation of the argument bcid leads to sql injection. The…
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attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-1172 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting the 1000 Projects Bookstore Management System version 1.0. The issue resides in unknown functionality within the file addtocart.php, where manipulation of the bcid argument enables SQL injection. Published on 2025-02-11, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and is associated with CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command) and CWE-89 (SQL Injection).
The vulnerability is exploitable remotely by attackers possessing low privileges, with low complexity and no requirement for user interaction. Successful exploitation grants limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption via injected SQL payloads.
Advisories and related details are available via references including the vendor site at https://1000projects.org/, a GitHub proof-of-concept at https://github.com/NeoVuln/CVE/issues/1, and VulDB entries at https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.295076, https://vuldb.com/?id.295076, and https://vuldb.com/?submit.495183. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
Notable context includes the public availability of the exploit, increasing the risk of immediate exploitation against unpatched instances of the affected software.
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