CVE-2025-2046
Published: 06 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2046 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Mayurik Best Employee 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 18.6th 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 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 mitigates SQL injection by requiring validation of the untrusted 'id' parameter in /admin/print1.php before incorporation into SQL queries.
Requires identification, reporting, and correction of the specific SQL injection flaw in the Best Employee Management System 1.0 application.
Enables vulnerability scanning that would identify the SQL injection vulnerability in /admin/print1.php for timely remediation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The SQL injection vulnerability in the public-facing web application (/admin/print1.php) enables exploitation for initial access (T1190) and facilitates unauthorized data collection from databases via blind, error-based, time-based, UNION, and stacked queries (T1213.006).
NVD Description
A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Best Employee Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /admin/print1.php. The manipulation of the argument id leads to sql injection. The attack may…
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be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-2046 is a SQL injection vulnerability classified as critical in SourceCodester Best Employee Management System 1.0. The issue resides in unknown functionality of the /admin/print1.php file, where manipulation of the "id" argument triggers the injection. It is associated with CWE-74 and CWE-89, with 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). The vulnerability was published on 2025-03-06.
The vulnerability is remotely exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires low privileges but no user interaction. An attacker with appropriate access can manipulate the "id" parameter to inject SQL payloads, potentially achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption within the application's database.
Advisories and further details are documented in references including https://github.com/Hefei-Coffee/cve/issues/2, https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.298796, https://vuldb.com/?id.298796, https://vuldb.com/?submit.513971, and the vendor site at https://www.sourcecodester.com/. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers. No specific patch or mitigation details are outlined in the available information.
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