CVE-2025-5985
Published: 10 June 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-5985 is a medium-severity Improper Authentication (CWE-287) vulnerability in Fabian School Fees Payment System. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 30.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-18068
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in code-projects School Fees Payment System 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed…
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to the public and may be used.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The improper authentication vulnerability in the public-facing School Fees Payment System enables remote exploitation (T1190), unauthorized data collection from the backend database via endpoints like datatable.php (T1213.006), and stored data manipulation such as modifying fee records via fees.php (T1565.001).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Detects unauthorized successful logons resulting from improper authentication implementations.
Documented procedures ensure personnel are trained on authentication mechanisms, tangibly lowering the risk of improper authentication being exploited.
Security awareness training instructs users on secure authentication practices and avoiding credential compromise.
Training on authentication mechanisms and best practices decreases the occurrence of improper authentication.
Non-repudiation requires strong authentication mechanisms to irrefutably attribute performed actions to specific individuals or processes.
Session content review can reveal authentication bypasses or failures in session establishment.
Review of authentication-related audit records can detect improper authentication mechanisms or bypasses.
Assessments check authentication mechanisms for correct implementation and effectiveness, reducing successful authentication bypass attempts.