CVE Alert: CVE-2025-10604 – PHPGurukul – Online Discussion Forum

Risk verdict

High risk: remote, unauthenticated SQL injection against the admin interface with a publicly available exploit; patch urgently.

Why this matters

An injection in the admin/edit_member.php workflow can reveal, modify or delete member data and potentially exfiltrate credentials. The lack of user interaction and network-based access raises the chances of automated exploitation, with business impact including data leakage, integrity compromise and reputational damage.

Most likely attack path

Attacker targets the publicly exposed /admin/edit_member.php endpoint, supplying a crafted id parameter to trigger SQL injection. With network access, no privileges required and no UI interaction, the attacker can enumerate data or manipulate records; if the underlying DB is misconfigured, further lateral movement or credential exposure is possible.

Who is most exposed

Any deployment running PHPGurukul Online Discussion Forum 1.0 with internet-facing admin pages is at risk, common in educational or community-hosted forums on LAMP stacks. Organisations with shared hosting or weak admin access controls are particularly vulnerable.

Detection ideas

• Spike in requests to edit_member.php with suspicious id values or SQL fragments
• Database error messages or unusual query errors appearing in app logs
• Anomalous data reads/writes from member tables after auth attempts
• Signatures or WAF events indicating SQL injection patterns
• Unusual traffic to admin endpoints from new or unknown IPs

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Apply vendor patch or upgrade to fixed version immediately
• Implement input parameterisation and prepared statements; validate/escape id values
• Restrict admin URL access to trusted networks; enforce MFA for admin accounts
• Deploy WAF/IPS rules to block typical SQLi payloads; monitor for repeated attempts
• Ensure backups and change-control logging; rotate credentials if compromise suspected

Note: If evidence of active exploitation (KEV/EPSS ≥ threshold) emerges, treat as priority 1.