CVE-2025-7176
Published: 08 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-7176 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Hospital Management 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 48.6% 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-2025-7176 is a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting PHPGurukul Hospital Management System version 1.0. The flaw resides in an unknown functionality of the file view-medhistory.php, where manipulation of the viewid argument enables SQL injection. Published on 2025-07-08, it is associated with CWEs-74 and CWE-89, carrying 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).
The vulnerability allows remote exploitation without authentication or user interaction. Attackers can launch SQL injection attacks by manipulating the viewid parameter, potentially achieving low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Advisories and details are available via VulDB entries and the vendor site at phpgurukul.com, along with a GitHub issue disclosing the exploit. No specific patch information is detailed in the primary description.
The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20467
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Hospital Management System 1.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file view-medhistory.php. The manipulation of the argument viewid leads to sql injection. The attack…
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can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
SQL injection in unauthenticated public-facing web app (view-medhistory.php) enables initial access via public-facing app exploitation (T1190), server software component abuse (T1505 as cited in advisory), and data collection from databases via arbitrary SQL queries (T1213.006).
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly requires validation and sanitization of the viewid parameter in view-medhistory.php to block SQL injection payloads before they reach the database.
Mandates timely remediation of the publicly disclosed SQL injection flaw in the Hospital Management System source code.
Boundary protection mechanisms such as WAF rules or input filters at the web server can block malicious viewid values before they reach the vulnerable PHP endpoint.