CVE-2025-70758
Published: 03 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-70758 is a high-severity Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions (CWE-703) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 16.7th 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-11 (Error Handling).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-70758 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the chetans9 core-php-admin-panel project through commit a94a780d6. The flaw exists in the includes/auth_validate.php component, where the application issues an HTTP redirect header (Location: login.php) upon detecting an unauthenticated user but neglects to invoke exit() afterward. This CWE-703 improper check or handling of exceptional conditions allows the script to continue execution, exposing protected resources. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating high confidentiality impact.
Remote unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. By directly accessing protected endpoints, attackers bypass the authentication check, as the redirect header is sent but the response body—including sensitive data from protected pages and the customer database—continues to be served before the browser follows the redirect.
References for CVE-2025-70758 include a vulnerability research repository at https://github.com/XavLimSG/Vulnerability-Research/tree/main/CVE-2025-70758, the affected core-php-admin-panel project at https://github.com/chetans9/core-php-admin-panel, and the specific vulnerable file at https://github.com/chetans9/core-php-admin-panel/blob/master/includes/auth_validate.php. No vendor advisories or patches are detailed in the provided information.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-206699
Vulnerability details
chetans9 core-php-admin-panel through commit a94a780d6 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in includes/auth_validate.php. The application sends an HTTP redirect via header(Location:login.php) when a user is not authenticated but fails to call exit() afterward. This allows remote unauthenticated attackers to access protected…
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pages.customer database.
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Why these techniques?
Authentication bypass in public-facing PHP web app directly enables remote exploitation of the application without credentials.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces approved authorizations for logical access to protected resources, directly preventing unauthenticated access despite failed authentication checks.
Requires proper handling of exceptional conditions such as failed authentication by terminating execution, preventing exposure of protected data after issuing a redirect.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of software flaws like the missing exit() call after authentication failure, eliminating the vulnerability.