CVE-2025-5249
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 · uneditedA vulnerability has been found in PHPGurukul News Portal Project 4.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /admin/add-category.php. The manipulation of the argument Category leads to sql injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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 exists in the PHPGurukul News Portal Project 4.1 at the /admin/add-category.php endpoint. The 'Category' parameter is not properly sanitized before being used in SQL queries, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary SQL code.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 4.1CVSS 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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Confirm PHPGurukul News Portal installationLocate the application files in your web server directory. Look for the main index.php or any recognizable PHPGurukul files.Affected if The application is not installed on your server.
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Identify installed versionCheck the version number of the PHPGurukul News Portal Project. This may be in a README file, version config, or footer of the application pages.Affected if The installed version is 4.1.
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Verify vulnerable file existsLocate the file /admin/add-category.php in your web server document root.Affected if The file /admin/add-category.php exists on your server.
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Check admin interface accessibilityDetermine if the /admin/ directory is accessible on your web server. Attempt to access /admin/add-category.php via HTTP/HTTPS.Affected if The admin interface at /admin/add-category.php is reachable without authentication or with valid admin credentials.
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Inspect Category parameter handlingExamine the source code of add-category.php to verify the Category parameter is used in SQL queries without proper sanitization, prepared statements, or parameterized queries.Affected if The Category parameter from POST/GET input is directly concatenated into SQL queries without escaping or binding.
Your environment is affected if PHPGurukul News Portal Project version 4.1 is installed, the file /admin/add-category.php exists, and the Category parameter in that file is used in unsanitized SQL queries.
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 with prepared statements/parameterized queries, and implement proper input validation on the Category parameter before database execution.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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