CVE-2025-2739
Published: 25 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-2739 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 27.1th 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).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
SI-10 requires validating and sanitizing user inputs like the 'sertitle' argument, directly preventing SQL injection by ensuring malicious payloads are rejected before database processing.
SI-2 mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws such as the SQL injection vulnerability in /admin/manage-services.php through patching or code remediation.
RA-5 requires vulnerability scanning and monitoring that would identify SQL injection vulnerabilities like CVE-2025-2739 in the application prior to exploitation.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unauthenticated SQL injection in public-facing web application enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), abuse of server software components (T1505 as noted in advisory), and collection from databases (T1213.006).
NVD Description
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Old Age Home Management System 1.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /admin/manage-services.php. The manipulation of the argument sertitle leads to sql injection. The attack…
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may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-2739 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Old Age Home Management System 1.0. The flaw affects the processing in the /admin/manage-services.php file, where manipulation of the 'sertitle' argument enables SQL 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).
Remote attackers require no privileges or user interaction to exploit this issue over the network with low complexity. Successful exploitation can result in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption within the application's database.
Advisories referenced in VulDB entries (ctiid.300761, id.300761) and a GitHub issue document the vulnerability and public exploit disclosure. The vendor site phpgurukul.com is listed, but no specific patches or mitigations are detailed in the available information.
The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
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