CVE Alert: CVE-2025-9927 – projectworlds – Travel Management System

Risk verdict

High risk: remote, unauthenticated SQL injection with a publicly available PoC; exploitation is feasible over the network.

Why this matters

Successful exploitation can expose or corrupt data and degrade service availability, with potential data leakage of customer or transaction records. The combination of network access, no authentication, and an automated PoC raises the likelihood of rapid low-effort attacks against exposed deployments.

Most likely attack path

An attacker can trigger the vulnerability by sending crafted input to the t1 parameter of the vulnerable endpoint over the network, without user interaction. The CVSS metrics indicate no privileges required and low attack complexity, with potential data confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Given the public PoC and automatable exploit, probing and mass attempts are highly plausible, potentially followed by data exfiltration or targeted data manipulation within the app’s database.

Who is most exposed

Public-facing instances of the Travel Management System web portal are the primary exposure. Organisations hosting customer-facing travel services or corporate intranets with web portals that rely on this component are the most at risk.

Detection ideas

• Look for abnormal, parameterized t1 inputs or SQL error messages in responses and logs.
• Web server and application logs showing repeated access to viewpackage.php with suspicious payload patterns.
• WAF/IDS alerts for SQL injection signatures targeting /viewpackage.php or similar endpoints.
• Unusual increases in DB query latency or failed authentication/error rates tied to the endpoint.
• Scanner activity patterns targeting external-facing web apps.

Mitigation and prioritisation

• Patch or upgrade to the fixed version provided by the vendor; verify fix in a staging environment before production.
• Enforce parameterised queries and prepared statements; validate and constrain t1 input with strict allowlists.
• Apply least-privilege database access for the application account; separate credentials per environment.
• Implement WAF/IPS rules to detect and block SQL injection attempts on the affected endpoint; consider temporary network ACLs or IP allowlists for high-risk deployments.
• Change-management: schedule a short maintenance window for patch validation and regression checks; monitor post-deployment logs closely.
• If the exploit is reachable from the internet, consider additional mitigations (authentication required for the endpoint, rate limiting, and network segmentation) until patching is complete.