Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify network-accessible admin/deleteform.php
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DeliveryEnumerate valid sid values via sequential probing
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ExploitSend unauthenticated HTTP request with target sid
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ExecutionBypass absent authorization check
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ImpactDelete targeted student records from database
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization verification
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
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| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 base score of 5.5 (Medium) reflects a network-accessible, unauthenticated attack (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) with limited impact: low integrity loss (VI:L) and low availability impact (VA:L) with no confidentiality exposure (VC:N) and no scope change to adjacent systems. The E:P supplemental metric confirms a working proof-of-concept exists, which meaningfully lowers the bar for exploitation. No EPSS score was provided in the input data, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified independently. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, meaning confirmed active exploitation in the wild has not been established. Real-world priority is tempered by the narrow impact ceiling - this grants record deletion capability only, not code execution or credential theft - and by the likely limited, non-internet-facing deployment profile of an open-source academic PHP project. However, the complete absence of a patch and an unresponsive maintainer mean the exposure window is indefinite for any deployed instance. The combination of public PoC plus no patch is the primary risk amplifier here, not the CVSS score alone. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker identifies a publicly accessible instance of the Student-Management-System and sends a crafted HTTP request directly to |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jun 01, 2026
Improper authorization in a4m4's Student-Management-System allows unauthenticated remote attackers to manipulate the sid parameter in admin/deleteform.php to delete student records without any credentials. All commits up to f0c5f6842c5e8c431ff02b5260a565ca844df3a0 are affected, and a proof-of-concept exploit has been publicly disclosed via the project's GitHub issue tracker. No patch is available; the maintainer has not responded to the responsible disclosure report, leaving all deployed instances exposed with no official remediation path.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch has been identified at time of analysis; the maintainer has not responded to the GitHub issue disclosure (https://github.com/a4m4/Student-Management-System--PHP-/issues/3). As an immediate compensating control, restrict access to admin/deleteform.php at the web server layer - for Apache, use an .htaccess directive requiring valid authenticated sessions before the PHP script is reached; for nginx, use a location block with auth_basic or IP allowlisting to limit access to known administrator source addresses. Trade-off: IP allowlisting breaks legitimate remote admin access. Alternatively, insert a PHP session validation check at the top of deleteform.php to verify an active admin session exists before processing the sid parameter - this directly addresses the CWE-285 root cause and has no functional side effects for legitimate admins. Removing or renaming the file entirely will prevent exploitation but disables the student deletion feature. Monitor https://vuldb.com/vuln/367551 and the GitHub repository for any upstream fix commit.
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The affected application is a PHP-based Student Management System (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:a4m4:student-management-system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) available on GitHub under a4m4/Student-Management-System--PHP-. The vulnerable component is the administrative endpoint admin/deleteform.php, which accepts a sid (student ID) parameter and performs a database delete operation without first verifying whether the requesting client holds an active, authorized admin session. CWE-285 (Improper Authorization) identifies the root cause as a failure to enforce access control at the function level - the application either omits the authorization gate entirely on this endpoint or implements it incorrectly, meaning the deletion action is reachable without passing any authentication check. The CVSS 4.0 vector confirms no additional tactics (AT:N), no privileges (PR:N), and no user interaction (UI:N) are required, consistent with a direct, unguarded administrative endpoint exposed over the network.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
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1DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability has been found in a4m4 Student-Management-System up to f0c5f6842c5e8c431ff02b5260a565ca844df3a0. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file admin/deleteform.php. Such manipulation of the argument sid leads to improper authorization. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This product takes the approach of rolling releases to provide continious delivery. Therefore, version details for affected and updated releases are not available. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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