Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to CloudClassroom app
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DeliveryCraft malicious gname parameter
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ExploitSubmit to updateguest.php
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ExecutionInjected SQL executes in DB
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ImpactExtract or alter database records
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Parameterized queries, prepared statements
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Persistence The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires reaching the updateguest.php endpoint and supplying a crafted 'gname' argument that is concatenated into a SQL statement; per the vendor CVSS vector the attacker needs some level of authenticated/low-privilege access (PR:L), so exploitation is limited to users who can invoke the guest-update function rather than fully anonymous visitors. Practically limiting factors: the product is a niche hobby PHP application with tiny deployment, no released versioned build to target (rolling release), and no vendor patch - but a public PoC advisory (JaconiasDev) reduces attacker effort. The PR:L requirement is not corroborated by the description and should be verified against the actual code, since updateguest.php may or may not enforce a session. |
| Impact | This is a classic VulDB-sourced disclosure against an obscure hobby PHP project (mathurvishal/CloudClassroom-PHP-Project) using a rolling-release model with no discrete version numbers, which itself complicates patch tracking and asset inventory. Signals are mixed-to-low priority: the input CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L, score 5.3) implies a network-reachable but authenticated (PR:L) SQL injection with only Low impact across confidentiality/integrity/availability, and E:P (Proof-of-Concept) exploit maturity. A public exploit advisory exists (GitHub JaconiasDev), so publicly available exploit code exists - but this is distinct from active exploitation: there is NO EPSS score provided and NO CISA KEV listing, indicating no evidence of widespread or automated exploitation in the wild. The vendor was contacted and did not respond, so no official fix is confirmed. The most notable conflict is impact rating: the vendor scores all impacts as Low (VC/VI/VA:L), but an unconstrained SQL injection typically enables full database read, which would justify C:H - the true confidentiality impact is likely understated unless the injection point is heavily constrained (e.g., limited to a boolean/blind or ORDER-BY context). Also note the PR:L (authenticated) rating is unverifiable from the terse description, which does not state whether updateguest.php requires a session. Overall this is a low-real-world-priority issue: a niche product, no KEV, no EPSS, only a PoC, tempered by likely-understated confidentiality impact. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with (per the CVSS vector) low-privilege access to a deployed CloudClassroom-PHP-Project instance submits a crafted value in the 'gname' parameter to updateguest.php, injecting SQL that the application concatenates into a database query. A public exploit advisory is available (GitHub JaconiasDev), lowering the effort to reproduce and enabling extraction or manipulation of guest/database records. Because the app is network-facing, the request can be delivered remotely over HTTP. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 28, 2026
SQL injection in the CloudClassroom PHP Project's updateguest.php endpoint lets an attacker manipulate the 'gname' argument to inject arbitrary SQL into the application's database queries, enabling unauthorized read and partial modification of classroom data. The project is distributed as a rolling-release repository rather than versioned builds, so no discrete affected version can be enumerated, and the vendor was contacted about the disclosure but did not respond, leaving no released fix. Publicly available exploit code exists via the JaconiasDev advisory; there is no CISA KEV entry, so the activity level is proof-of-concept rather than confirmed active exploitation, and the disclosed CVSS v4.0 score of 5.3 (vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/E:P) reflects a moderate-severity issue whose practical risk is tempered by the product's very small deployment footprint.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis: the maintainer was contacted early and did not respond, and the rolling-release model means no fixed commit or version has been published, so patching must be done in-house. The correct fix is to convert the updateguest.php handler to parameterized/prepared statements (PDO or mysqli with bound parameters) for the gname value and any other request-derived fields, which eliminates the injection without changing application behavior; where the query is dynamically constructed, add a strict allowlist for the guest name and cast any numeric fields to integers. Until that code change is deployed, the most effective compensating control is to restrict access to updateguest.php so only trusted, authenticated administrative accounts can reach it - for example, an Apache/nginx location block requiring a valid session plus IP allowlisting of staff networks - accepting the trade-off that legitimate guest-update workflows become unavailable to normal users. A WAF rule or reverse-proxy filter that rejects SQL metacharacters (quotes, comment sequences, UNION/SELECT keywords) in the gname parameter offers a short-term block but is bypassable via encoding and may generate false positives on names containing apostrophes. Because the project has no release cadence, track the upstream repository history manually and redeploy a corrected snapshot if the maintainer eventually merges a fix; the public advisory at https://github.com/JaconiasDev/Advisory-CloundClassroom-PHP-Project-1.0.git should be used to reproduce and verify that the fix actually blocks the published payload. Given the niche deployment footprint, consider whether the application is still required at all and decommission it if not, which removes the exposure entirely.
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This is a CWE-89 SQL injection (SQLi) in a PHP web application. The vulnerable code path is the file updateguest.php, which updates a guest record and takes the 'gname' parameter from the request; the value is concatenated into a SQL statement without parameterization, so an attacker who can reach the endpoint can alter the query's structure. PHP applications of this style typically build queries as string literals passed to mysqli_query or PDO::query, which is exactly the pattern that enables tautology-based injection (e.g., ' OR '1'='1) or UNION/stacked-query data extraction against the backend database. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:mathurvishal:cloudclassroom-php-project:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* uses a wildcard version, consistent with the project's rolling-release model in which no tagged affected or fixed builds exist - so asset inventory must be based on commit content rather than version strings. Per the vendor's CVSS v4.0 vector the exploit requires low privileges (PR:L), meaning the actor must already be able to invoke the guest-update function; however, the source description does not confirm that updateguest.php actually enforces a session or role check, and our assessed CVSS:3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L) mirrors the PR:L assumption while rating confidentiality impact higher than the vendor did. The authentication prerequisite should be validated directly against the code before treating the flaw as post-authentication only.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Network SQLi via a request parameter (AV:N/AC:L), PR:L per the vendor vector; unconstrained SQLi typically yields full DB read (C:H) with limited write/DoS (I:L/A:L).
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CVSS VectorVendor: VulDB
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3DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability was identified in mathurvishal CloudClassroom-PHP-Project up to 5dadec098bfbbf3300d60c3494db3fb95b66e7be. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file updateguest.php. The manipulation of the argument gname leads to sql injection. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. This product uses a rolling release model to deliver continuous updates. As a result, specific version information for affected or updated releases is not available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Attack Technique
SQL injection exploits the way applications construct database queries by mixing user input directly into SQL statements.
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