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How CVE-2025-4080 Works
The vulnerability exists in `/admin/view-request.php` due to improper sanitization of the `viewid` parameter. Attackers can inject malicious SQL queries through this parameter, manipulating database operations. Since no input validation or prepared statements are implemented, the application directly concatenates user-supplied data into SQL queries. Remote attackers exploit this by crafting specially crafted HTTP requests containing SQL payloads, potentially leading to unauthorized data access, modification, or deletion. The lack of authentication checks in the affected component further escalates the risk.
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Platform: PHPGurukul
Version: 1.0
Vulnerability: SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Date: 05/14/2025
What Undercode Say:
Exploitation
curl -X GET "http://target.com/admin/view-request.php?viewid=1' UNION SELECT 1,2,3,4,5-- -"
1' AND (SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(5))a)--
Detection
sqlmap -u "http://target.com/admin/view-request.php?viewid=1" --risk=3 --level=5
Mitigation
$viewid = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_GET['viewid']);
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT FROM requests WHERE id = ?");
$stmt->bind_param("i", $viewid);
Log Analysis
grep "view-request.php" /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep -E "UNION|SLEEP|SELECT"
WAF Rule
if ($args ~ "UNION|SELECT|SLEEP") {
return 403;
}
Patch Verification
diff -u view-request.php.old view-request.php.new
Database Hardening
REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON nurse_system. FROM 'webuser'@'localhost'; GRANT SELECT ONLY ON nurse_system.requests TO 'webuser'@'localhost';
Incident Response
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m string --string "viewid=" --algo bm -j DROP
Backup Recovery
mysqldump -u root -p nurse_system > backup_$(date +%F).sql
Sources:
Reported By: nvd.nist.gov
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