CVE-2025-7172
Published: 08 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-7172 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Code-Projects Crime Reporting 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 47.1% 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-7172 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-74, CWE-89) in code-projects Crime Reporting System 1.0, affecting an unknown functionality within the /headlogin.php file. The flaw is triggered by manipulation of the email argument, enabling SQL injection attacks. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and was published on 2025-07-08.
The vulnerability is remotely exploitable by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Successful exploitation can result in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption within the affected application.
Advisories and related resources, including VulDB entries (https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.315111, https://vuldb.com/?id.315111, https://vuldb.com/?submit.606646) and a GitHub issue (https://github.com/A1b2rt/CVE/issues/5), provide further details. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used, as noted on code-projects.org (https://code-projects.org/).
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20422
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in code-projects Crime Reporting System 1.0. This affects an unknown part of the file /headlogin.php. The manipulation of the argument email leads to sql injection. It is possible to initiate 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 in public-facing web application (/headlogin.php) enables exploitation for initial access (T1190) and arbitrary data collection from databases via injected queries (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and sanitization of the email input parameter in headlogin.php to block SQL injection payloads.
Enforces that only authorized queries and data access occur, preventing the unauthorized reads/writes enabled by the SQLi flaw.
Requires prompt remediation of the known SQL injection flaw in the publicly disclosed Crime Reporting System code.