CVE-2025-2738
Published: 25 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2738 is a high-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Old Age Home 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 39.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
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 prevents SQL injection by validating and sanitizing user inputs like the 'namesc' argument before incorporation into database queries.
Requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws such as the SQL injection vulnerability in /admin/manage-scdetails.php.
Enables vulnerability scanning to identify SQL injection issues like CVE-2025-2738 in web applications prior to exploitation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection in public-facing web app enables T1190 exploitation; allows unauthorized DB queries (T1213.006) and stored data manipulation (T1565.001).
NVD Description
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Old Age Home Management System 1.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/manage-scdetails.php. The manipulation of the argument namesc leads to sql injection. The attack can…
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be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-2738 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Old Age Home Management System 1.0. The issue resides in unknown code within the file /admin/manage-scdetails.php, where manipulation of the 'namesc' argument enables the injection. Published on 2025-03-25, 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).
Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability without privileges or user interaction, initiating the attack over the network with low complexity. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling unauthorized database queries, data manipulation, or disruption via SQL injection.
Advisories and further details are available in referenced sources, including https://github.com/X-X-007/cve/issues/2, https://phpgurukul.com/, https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.300760, https://vuldb.com/?id.300760, and https://vuldb.com/?submit.522931. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used.
The vulnerability has no reported AI/ML relevance, and no real-world exploitation in the wild is noted in available information.
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