CVE-2026-1141
Published: 19 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-1141 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Phpgurukul News Portal. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 23.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
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.
Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.
Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.
Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.
The control requires explicit definition of separated access authorizations, making incorrect privilege assignments that bundle conflicting duties harder to implement.
Ensures privileges are assigned only as necessary rather than incorrectly over-granted.
The control's documentation requirement reduces improper authorization by ensuring only mission-justified actions bypass authentication.
Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.
Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Improper authorization (broken access control) in a public-facing web app directly enables remote exploitation by low-privileged accounts to perform unauthorized admin actions, mapping to privilege escalation via vuln exploitation and public-facing app exploitation.
NVD Description
A vulnerability was identified in PHPGurukul News Portal 1.0. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /admin/add-subadmins.php of the component Add Sub-Admin Page. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit…
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is publicly available and might be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-1141 is an improper authorization vulnerability affecting PHPGurukul News Portal 1.0. The issue resides in an unknown function within the file /admin/add-subadmins.php of the Add Sub-Admin Page component. Manipulation of this element leads to unauthorized actions, classified under CWE-266 and CWE-285, with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
The vulnerability enables remote exploitation by attackers possessing low privileges, such as a standard user account. Exploitation requires network access and low complexity but no user interaction. Successful attacks can result in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially allowing partial unauthorized data access, modification, or disruption.
VulDB advisories (ctiid.341733, id.341733, submit.735483) detail the vulnerability, while a public proof-of-concept exploit is available on GitHub at https://github.com/Asim-QAZi/BrokenAccessControl-News-Portal-Project-in-PHP-and-MySQL-in-PHPGurukul. The vendor site at https://phpgurukul.com/ provides project context, but no patches or specific mitigations are referenced.
The public availability of the exploit heightens the risk of real-world exploitation against unpatched instances of PHPGurukul News Portal 1.0.
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