CVE-2026-3740
Published: 08 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-3740 is a medium-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Angeljudesuarez University Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 24.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2026-3740 is a SQL injection vulnerability affecting itsourcecode University Management System 1.0. The flaw resides in an unknown function within the file /admin_search_student.php, where manipulation of the admin_search_student argument enables SQL injection. This issue corresponds to CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command) and CWE-89 (SQL Injection), with 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 was published on 2026-03-08.
Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability without authentication or user interaction, requiring only network access to the affected system. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as unauthorized data access, modification, or denial of service via injected SQL queries. An exploit for this vulnerability has been made publicly available and could be used in attacks.
Advisories and additional details are available through references including a GitHub issue at https://github.com/DaMaTou00/project/issues/1, the vendor site at https://itsourcecode.com/, and VulDB entries at https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.349718, https://vuldb.com/?id.349718, and https://vuldb.com/?submit.767341.
The public availability of the exploit increases the risk of real-world attacks against unpatched instances of the University Management System.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-10243
Vulnerability details
A weakness has been identified in itsourcecode University Management System 1.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /admin_search_student.php. This manipulation of the argument admin_search_student causes sql injection. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit…
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has been made available to the public and could be used for attacks.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection in unauthenticated public-facing PHP web app (/admin_search_student.php) directly enables remote exploitation for data access/modification/DoS per T1190.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires validation and sanitization of untrusted input (admin_search_student argument) to block SQL command injection.
Limits privileges of the database account used by /admin_search_student.php so that successful injection yields only minimal impact.
Enables monitoring and analysis of web/application traffic to identify anomalous SQL syntax or query patterns indicative of injection attempts.