CVE Alert: CVE-2025-9765 – itsourcecode – Sports Management System

Risk verdict

Publicly disclosed, unauthenticated remote SQL injection against an admin PHP endpoint creates a high‑risk exposure requiring urgent remediation.

Why this matters

Successful exploitation can lead to data exposure and integrity compromise of tournament records, with potential leakage of participant information. The availability impact is plausible if the attacker disrupts or manipulates database content, and there is public tooling to assist exploitation, enabling rapid automated attacks.

Most likely attack path

Remote, no user interaction required, no privileges needed, and no authentication required to trigger the injection. An attacker can supply crafted input to the ID parameter on the admin page to alter or exfiltrate data, leveraging the unchanged scope to access backend data under the same database context.

Who is most exposed

Internet‑facing installations of the sports management system, especially those with publicly accessible admin panels or weak network segmentation, including small organisations and hosting providers.

Detection ideas

• Frequent requests to tournament_details.php with varying ID values, including anomalous payloads
• SQL error messages or stack traces leaking into responses
• Sudden spikes in admin page errors or unusual data retrieval patterns
• Unexplained data reads/writes from the database tied to the vulnerable endpoint
• Unusual authentication or access attempts from unfamiliar IPs targeting the admin area

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Apply vendor patch or upgrade to a fixed version; if unavailable, implement strict input validation and parameterised queries
• Block or constrain access to the admin endpoint (VPN, allowlists, or WAF rules targeting SQLi)
• Implement least-privilege database accounts; restrict DB user permissions for the app
• Enable monitoring for anomalous data access and enable robust alerting on admin pages
• Schedule a rapid patching window and verify backups prior to remediation