Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach admin/save_student.php endpoint remotely
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ExploitInject SQL via date/section/password parameter
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ExecutionPayload concatenated into mysqli_query
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ImpactDatabase read or modified
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 | Exploitation targets the admin/save_student.php endpoint and requires supplying a malicious value in one of the specific parameters that reach the mysqli_query call: date, department, subject, forwarded_to, action_taken_by, section, or password. The attack is remote over the network. The key limiting factor is the endpoint's 'admin/' location, which suggests an administrative interface that may require authentication - the supplied CVSS vector claims PR:N (unauthenticated), but this is not corroborated by the description and should be verified against the source, since a login requirement would materially reduce exploitability. No special non-default configuration is described as a prerequisite, and no fixed version is available because the project has not responded. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 base vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) with VC:L/VI:L/VA:L yields a Medium score of 6.9, and the low (rather than high) confidentiality/integrity/availability impacts are the main thing holding it below High. The SSVC/vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', not act_now or emergency, which is consistent with a real-but-not-urgent issue. This is NOT in CISA KEV, so there is no public evidence of active exploitation, and no EPSS probability was supplied, so widespread-exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the input. A public PoC reference exists (the vendor issue report on GitHub) but it is not verified as working exploit code, so the 'E:P' (Proof-of-Concept) maturity should not be read as weaponized or in-the-wild. One conflicting signal to verify: the vulnerable file is 'admin/save_student.php', whose 'admin/' path implies an administrative area that might require authentication, yet the supplied CVSS vector states PR:N (unauthenticated) - this discrepancy should be confirmed against the actual code, because real-world risk is far lower if the admin panel enforces a login. Net: a genuine SQL injection worth patching on a normal cycle, not a drop-everything emergency, and its practical risk is further tempered by the product's near-zero deployment footprint. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker sends a crafted request to admin/save_student.php with a malicious value in one of the injectable parameters (e.g. date, department, section, or password), which is concatenated into a mysqli_query call, allowing the attacker to alter the SQL statement and read or modify database contents. A public PoC reference exists via the project's GitHub issue, but it is not verified as working exploit code. If the admin endpoint in fact requires a login, the attacker would first need valid/administrative access, lowering practical exploitability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 30, 2026
SQL injection in the admin student-save handler (admin/save_student.php) of the open-source 37954679 cak-filemanagement-system allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary SQL through the date, department, subject, forwarded_to, action_taken_by, section, or password parameters that are passed into a mysqli_query call. The project is affected through commit 5e6433246475e66462e1fea980688de96a049297 and the vendor has not responded to the issue report, so no fixed release is identified. Impact is scored Medium (CVSS 4.0 base 6.9 with E:P; independent CVSS 3.1 6.9, C:L/I:L/A:L); a public PoC reference exists in the upstream issue tracker but it is not verified as working exploit code, and there is no evidence of active exploitation. The main open question is the authentication requirement: the supplied vector asserts PR:N while the vulnerable script sits under an admin/ path, and a login gate would materially reduce exploitability.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch is identified at time of analysis: the maintainers were notified through GitHub issue https://github.com/37954679/cak-filemanagement-system/issues/1 and have not responded, and there is no fixed commit or tagged release to cite. Because the defect is a concatenated mysqli_query in admin/save_student.php, the durable fix is to replace string-built SQL there with parameterized statements (mysqli_prepare/bind_param) across all seven affected parameters, or to adopt an equivalent of the upstream fix once published. Until then, compensating controls should focus on reducing reachability of the admin surface: place admin/save_student.php behind an authenticated session check and server-side access rules (for example restricting it to trusted source ranges or an internal reverse proxy), accepting that this breaks direct access for legitimate remote administrators who are not on the allowlist; add an application-layer or WAF rule that rejects requests to that endpoint containing SQL metacharacters (quotes, comment sequences, UNION/SLEEP patterns) in date, department, subject, forwarded_to, action_taken_by, section, or password, at the cost of possible false positives on free-text fields; and run the application with a database account limited to the minimum required privileges so that injected statements cannot read or write unrelated schemas or files. Note that these are compensating measures only, not vendor guidance, and they do not remove the underlying injection.
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The affected code is a PHP web application that builds SQL statements by concatenating user-supplied request parameters directly into a mysqli_query call inside admin/save_student.php, the classic CWE-89 improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command. Because seven distinct parameters (date, department, subject, forwarded_to, action_taken_by, section, password) reach the same query sink, the injection surface is broad and the flaw is reachable over the network with no described non-default configuration. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:37954679:cak-filemanagement-system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* indicates the whole project is treated as affected rather than a discrete version range, consistent with a source-commit-style reference (up to 5e6433246475e66462e1fea980688de96a049297) rather than a tagged release. Successfully injected statements would let an attacker read or alter rows the application account can reach, including student records and credential material, since the password parameter is itself part of the injection set. The exact triggering preconditions beyond parameter manipulation are not described in the available sources, and the exploitability of the admin/ endpoint depends on whether its access control can be bypassed or absent by default.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Remote network SQLi with no described auth gives AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, but the admin/ path leaves PR uncertain; limited C/I/A reflect the input's VC:L/VI:L/VA:L.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulDB).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulDB
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability was found in 37954679 cak-filemanagement-system up to 5e6433246475e66462e1fea980688de96a049297. This affects the function mysqli_query of the file admin/save_student.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument date/department/subject/forwarded_to/action_taken_by/section/password results in sql injection. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
SQL injection exploits the way applications construct database queries by mixing user input directly into SQL statements.
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