CVE-2025-45065
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedemployee record management system in php and mysql v1 was discovered to contain a SQL injection vulnerability via the loginerms.php endpoint.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceA SQL injection vulnerability in the loginerms.php endpoint of the employee record management system allows attackers to inject malicious SQL queries through the login form, potentially enabling unauthorized database access, authentication bypass, and extraction of sensitive employee records.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Locate the loginerms.php file in your environmentSearch your web root directories for a file named 'loginerms.php' - check common paths like /var/www/html/, /var/www/, or your application's document rootAffected if The file exists in your environment and is accessible via the web server
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Inspect the loginerms.php source code for SQL query constructionOpen loginerms.php and examine the code handling the login form submission. Look for SQL queries being built using string concatenation or string interpolation with user input from $_POST['username'], $_POST['password'], or similar form fieldsAffected if The code builds SQL queries by directly concatenating or interpolating user input into query strings without sanitization
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Verify whether parameterized queries are usedSearch the loginerms.php code for PDO prepared statements, mysqli_prepare, or other parameter binding methods. Look for patterns like $stmt->prepare() with placeholders (?) or named parametersAffected if Parameterized queries are NOT used - the code executes raw SQL strings constructed with user input
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Check if the login form connects to a databaseLook for database connection code in loginerms.php such as mysqli_connect, $pdo = new PDO, or database query execution functions like mysqli_query, $pdo->query, or mysql queriesAffected if The loginerms.php file connects to a database and executes queries, making the SQL injection exploitable
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Test the login form for SQL injection behaviorSubmit a login request with a known-valid username and a password containing SQL characters like "' OR '1'='1" or "' OR '1'='1' --". Compare the application's response to a normal login attemptAffected if The application grants access or returns different error messages when SQL injection payloads are submitted, indicating the vulnerability is exploitable
You are affected if the loginerms.php file exists and its code constructs SQL queries using string concatenation with user input without parameterized queries or input sanitization.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataReplace dynamic SQL queries in loginerms.php with parameterized queries (PDO prepared statements) and audit all other endpoints for similar injection vulnerabilities.
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