CVE-2025-1873
Published: 03 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-1873 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Mayurik Best Online News Portal. 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 30.0th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly prevents SQL injection in the pagetitle and pagedescription parameters by validating all information inputs to admin/contactus.php before processing in database queries.
Remediates the specific SQL injection flaw in CVE-2025-1873 by identifying, reporting, and correcting the vulnerable code in 101news version 1.0.
Scans the 101news application for vulnerabilities like the SQL injection in admin/contactus.php, enabling timely detection and remediation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Direct remote exploitation of a public-facing web application via SQL injection in admin/contactus.php parameters.
NVD Description
SQL injection vulnerability have been found in 101news affecting version 1.0 through the "pagetitle" and "pagedescription" parameters in admin/contactus.php.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-1873 is an SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) discovered in the 101news application, specifically affecting version 1.0 through the "pagetitle" and "pagedescription" parameters in the admin/contactus.php component. Published on 2025-03-03, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), classifying it as critical due to its potential for severe impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity and without requiring user interaction. Exploitation enables arbitrary SQL query execution, allowing attackers to potentially extract sensitive data, modify database contents, or disrupt service availability.
The INCIBE-CERT advisory at https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-vulnerabilities-101news provides details on this and other vulnerabilities in 101news, including recommended mitigations.
Details
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