CVE-2025-2057
Published: 07 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2057 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Emergency Ambulance Hiring Portal. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 10.5th 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).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-2057 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Emergency Ambulance Hiring Portal 1.0. The flaw resides in an unknown function within the file /admin/about-us.php, where manipulation of the "pagedes" argument triggers the injection. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and was published on 2025-03-07.
Remote attackers require no privileges or user interaction to exploit this vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity. Successful exploitation enables limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing unauthorized access, modification, or disruption of database operations via injected SQL payloads.
Advisories on VulDB (ctiid.298812, id.298812) and a GitHub issue (12T40910/CVE/issues/5) detail the vulnerability, with the proof-of-concept exploit publicly disclosed and available for use. The vendor site phpgurukul.com is referenced, but no patches or specific mitigations are outlined in the provided information.
The exploit has been made public, increasing the risk of active exploitation against unpatched instances of the portal.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6228
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in PHPGurukul Emergency Ambulance Hiring Portal 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin/about-us.php. The manipulation of the argument pagedes leads to sql injection. It is possible to launch…
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the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection vulnerability enables exploitation of public-facing web applications (T1190), server software components as noted in advisory (T1505), and collection from databases via unauthorized queries (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SI-10 requires validating and sanitizing information inputs like the pagedes parameter to prevent SQL injection manipulation in /admin/about-us.php.
SI-2 mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws such as this critical SQL injection vulnerability.
RA-5 requires vulnerability scanning that would identify SQL injection flaws like CVE-2025-2057 in the affected web application.