CVE Alert: CVE-2025-11416 – PHPGurukul – Beauty Parlour Management System

Risk verdict

High risk: remote SQL injection in invoices.php with a publicly available exploit, potentially exposing data and enabling further compromise.

Why this matters

The vulnerability allows attackers to exfiltrate or modify data without authentication, using a crafted delid parameter. Combined with public exploitation, this raises the likelihood of automated scanning and rapid data exposure across affected sites.

Most likely attack path

An external attacker targets the /admin/invoices.php endpoint with a crafted delid parameter. The injection occurs via unsafely concatenated SQL, enabling arbitrary data access or modification without user interaction. With a network-accessible admin page and a low-privilege DB account, the attacker could enumerate data and pivot to other systems if database permissions permit.

Who is most exposed

Web deployments running PHPGurukul Beauty Parlour Management System 1.1 with an internet-facing admin panel are at highest risk, especially small businesses hosted on shared environments where access controls may be lax.

Detection ideas

• Anomalous requests to invoices.php containing suspicious delid values or SQL syntax.
• Database error logs or application logs showing SQL errors from delid input.
• Unusual data access patterns or sudden spikes in reads/writes to invoices data.
• WAF alerts for SQLi payloads targeting the delid parameter.
• Repeated 500/500‑level responses from the invoices endpoint.

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Apply vendor patch or upgrade to non-affected version; implement parameterised queries for delid.
• Restrict access to the admin area (IP allowlisting, MFA, or move behind VPN).
• Implement input validation and prepared statements; enforce least privilege for the DB account.
• Enable a WAF with SQLi signatures and monitor SQL error patterns.
• Change management: test patch in staging, then deploy; verify logs for indicators of compromise post‑patch.