Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-2984

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 31 March 2025

Published
31 March 2025
Modified
14 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-2984 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Fabian Payroll Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 32.8th 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

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 by validating and sanitizing the emp_id input parameter in /delete.php to block malicious payloads.

prevent

Remediates the specific SQL injection flaw in Payroll Management System 1.0 through identification, reporting, and correction of the vulnerability.

detect

Vulnerability scanning detects SQL injection issues like CVE-2025-2984 in /delete.php for proactive 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.
T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
Adversaries may abuse legitimate extensible development features of servers to establish persistent access to systems.
T1213.006 Databases Collection
Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.
Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing web application (/delete.php) enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), abuse of server software components for code execution (T1505 as cited in advisory), and unauthorized database queries for data collection (T1213.006).

NVD Description

A vulnerability was found in code-projects Payroll Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /delete.php. The manipulation of the argument emp_id leads to sql injection. The attack may be…

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

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-2984 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in code-projects Payroll Management System 1.0. The issue affects unknown functionality in the /delete.php file, where manipulation of the emp_id argument enables SQL injection. Published on 2025-03-31, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

An attacker with low privileges can exploit this remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption via injected SQL payloads.

Advisories are available via VulDB (ctiid.302036, id.302036, submit.523343), a GitHub repository at github.com/LispTexd/cve/blob/main/cve.md, and the project site at code-projects.org. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

fabian
payroll management system
1.0

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References