CVE Alert: CVE-2025-10813 – code-projects – Hostel Management System

Risk verdict

High risk of remote, unauthenticated SQL injection with a public PoC and automatable exploit, warranting urgent remediation.

Why this matters

Exploitation could lead to exposure or alteration of sensitive resident data and administrative records, undermining trust and regulatory compliance. Even with partial impact, attackers may leverage data access for fraud, inventory manipulation, or further network probing within the hosting environment.

Most likely attack path

Remote, network-based attack against the vulnerable index.php endpoint, without user interaction or privileges. An automated attacker can inject malicious SQL through the Home parameter, enabling data retrieval or modification and potentially consuming resources on the database.

Who is most exposed

Web-hosted hostel/hospitality management installations on common stacks (e.g., LAMP/Windows IIS) with exposed admin interfaces are at highest risk; environments with direct internet access to admin panels and minimal input sanitisation are especially vulnerable.

Detection ideas

• Logs show repeated abnormal requests to /justines/admin/mod_reports/index.php with unusual Home values
• SQL error messages or database warnings in app or server logs
• spikes in slow queries or connection counts to the database during admin report accesses
• signature matches or patterns from publicly available PoC payloads
• WAF alerts for SQL injection attempts targeting the endpoint

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Apply vendor patch or upgrade to a fixed version; if unavailable, implement compensating controls (web application firewall rules, input sanitisation, and query parameterisation)
• Convert queries to parameterised statements; enforce strong input validation on Home
• Enforce least-privilege DB accounts and segregate admin DB access; disable unnecessary admin functionality if feasible
• Harden exposure: restrict access to the admin endpoint by network allowlists, MFA, and rate limiting
• Plan a staged remediation within change-control windows; verify fixes in a test environment before production rollout; monitor after deployment for anomalies