Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-2643

HighPublic PoC

Published: 23 March 2025

Published
23 March 2025
Modified
02 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0007 21.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-2643 is a high-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Art Gallery Management System. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 21.9th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 2 other techniques. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.
Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

prevent

Directly prevents SQL injection exploitation by enforcing validation and sanitization of untrusted inputs like the 'arttype' parameter before database query construction.

prevent

Requires identification, reporting, and correction of the specific SQL injection flaw in /admin/edit-art-type-detail.php to eliminate the vulnerability.

preventdetect

Facilitates detection of SQL injection vulnerabilities like CVE-2025-2643 through regular scanning and drives risk-based remediation.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1213.006 Databases Collection
Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.
T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
Adversaries may abuse legitimate extensible development features of servers to establish persistent access to systems.
Why these techniques?

Unauthenticated remote SQL injection in public-facing web application (PHPGurukul Art Gallery Management System) enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), collection of data from databases (T1213.006), and abuse of server software components (T1505) as mapped by VulDB.

NVD Description

A vulnerability has been found in PHPGurukul Art Gallery Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/edit-art-type-detail.php?editid=1. The manipulation of the argument arttype leads to sql injection. The attack can be initiated…

more

remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-2643 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Art Gallery Management System 1.0. The flaw resides in unknown code within the file /admin/edit-art-type-detail.php?editid=1, where manipulation of the 'arttype' argument enables SQL injection. Published on 2025-03-23, 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).

Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling data extraction, modification, or disruption within the affected application's database.

Advisories and additional details are available via VulDB entries (https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300658, https://vuldb.com/?id.300658, https://vuldb.com/?submit.519772), the vendor site (https://phpgurukul.com/), and a GitHub issue (https://github.com/liuhao2638/cve/issues/6). The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be in use.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

phpgurukul
art gallery management system
1.0

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