CVE-2025-2378
Published: 17 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2378 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Medical Card System. 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 19.5th 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 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-2378 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability in PHPGurukul Medical Card Generation System 1.0, affecting an unknown part of the file /download-medical-cards.php through manipulation of the searchdata argument. Published on 2025-03-17T13:15:39.513, 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 maps to CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command) and CWE-89 (SQL Injection).
The vulnerability enables remote exploitation without authentication or user interaction, requiring low attack complexity. Attackers can manipulate the searchdata parameter to inject SQL payloads, potentially achieving low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or denial of service.
Advisories referenced in VulDB entries (ctiid.299877, id.299877, submit.515822) and a GitHub issue detail the vulnerability, while the vendor site phpgurukul.com provides context on the affected software.
The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6584
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Medical Card Generation System 1.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file /download-medical-cards.php. The manipulation of the argument searchdata leads to sql injection. It is possible to…
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initiate 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?
The unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the public-facing /download-medical-cards.php endpoint enables remote exploitation for initial access (T1190). It also facilitates unauthorized database enumeration and data extraction as demonstrated in the POC with sqlmap (--dbs, UNION SELECT) (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mitigates SQL injection by requiring validation and sanitization of the searchdata input parameter before use in database queries.
Requires identification, reporting, and correction of the specific SQL injection flaw in /download-medical-cards.php to eliminate the vulnerability.
Boundary protection at web interfaces can deploy WAFs to inspect and block malicious SQL payloads targeting the searchdata parameter.