CVE-2025-2665
Published: 23 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2665 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Online Security Guards Hiring 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 18.4th 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-2025-2665 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (classified under CWE-74 and CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Online Security Guards Hiring System 1.0. The flaw affects an unknown part of the file /admin/bwdates-reports-details.php, where manipulation of the fromdate and todate arguments 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).
The vulnerability is exploitable remotely by unauthenticated attackers requiring low attack complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption through injected SQL queries.
Advisories and further details are documented on VulDB (ctiid.300687, id.300687, submit.521167), a GitHub issue at i-Corner/cve/issues/1, and the vendor site phpgurukul.com. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
In notable context, the public availability of the exploit increases the risk of real-world exploitation against unpatched instances of this hiring system.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-7331
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Online Security Guards Hiring System 1.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file /admin/bwdates-reports-details.php. The manipulation of the argument fromdate/todate leads to sql injection. It is possible…
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to 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?
SQL injection in unauthenticated public-facing web app (/admin/bwdates-reports-details.php) enables initial access via public-facing app exploitation (T1190), server software component abuse (T1505 as noted in advisory), and database data collection (T1213.006) through arbitrary SQL query execution.
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly prevents SQL injection by requiring validation of user-supplied fromdate and todate parameters before use in database queries.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of the specific SQL injection flaw in /admin/bwdates-reports-details.php.
Facilitates proactive detection of the SQL injection vulnerability through regular vulnerability scanning of the application.