Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-28015

XSS in Phpgurukul User Registration \& Login And User Management System 3.3

Public PoCXSS
Published
13 March 2025
Modified
28 March 2025
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0028 21th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-28015 is a medium-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Phpgurukul User Registration \& Login And User Management System. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Content Injection (T1659); ranked at the 21th 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 map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A HTML Injection vulnerability was found in loginsystem/edit-profile.php of the PHPGurukul User Registration & Login and User Management System V3.3. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary HTML code via the fname, lname, and contact parameters.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1659 Content Injection Initial Access
Adversaries may gain access and continuously communicate with victims by injecting malicious content into systems through online network traffic.
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access
Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

phpgurukul
user registration \& login and user management system
3.3

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.2.1
  • V1.3.1
  • V1.3.3
  • V1.3.4

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect neutralization of script tags through targeted XSS test cases.

Input validation explicitly requires checking and neutralizing untrusted web inputs containing script-related characters before they reach a downstream renderer.

Secure engineering principles include mandatory output encoding and neutralization of HTML metacharacters to stop injection at the source.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require output encoding and input validation that prevent basic XSS.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing in development catches unneutralized script tags before release.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates input validation and output encoding that directly prevent basic XSS.

prevents

Application security requirements explicitly call for neutralization of script-related HTML tags.

prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping of <, >, & to block XSS.

none

Web filtering can block some reflected XSS payloads at the network edge.

References