CVE-2025-7163
Published: 08 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-7163 is a low-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Zoo Management System. Its CVSS base score is 2.1 (Low).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 49.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; 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).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-7163 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (classified under CWE-74 and CWE-89) in PHPGurukul Zoo Management System version 2.1. The flaw resides in an unknown function within the file /admin/add-animals.php, where manipulation of the 'cnum' argument enables SQL injection. It has 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).
The vulnerability is exploitable remotely over the network with low attack complexity, requiring only low privileges, and no user interaction. An attacker with such access can achieve limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption via injected SQL queries.
Advisories and further details are available in the referenced sources, including a GitHub issue at https://github.com/f1rstb100d/myCVE/issues/106, the vendor site at https://phpgurukul.com/, and VULDB entries at https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.315102, https://vuldb.com/?id.315102, and https://vuldb.com/?submit.606370.
The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used, as noted in the CVE description published on 2025-07-08.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20391
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in PHPGurukul Zoo Management System 2.1. Affected is an unknown function of the file /admin/add-animals.php. The manipulation of the argument cnum leads to sql injection. It is possible to launch the…
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attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection vulnerability in public-facing web application (/admin/add-animals.php) enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), abuse of server software components (T1505 as assigned in advisory), and collection of data from databases (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation of the 'cnum' input parameter in add-animals.php to reject malformed SQL before query execution.
Mandates timely remediation of the SQL injection flaw in /admin/add-animals.php once the public exploit is known.
Enables monitoring of database queries and anomalous input patterns originating from the vulnerable endpoint to identify injection attempts.