CVE-2025-6285
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 was found in PHPGurukul COVID19 Testing Management System 2021. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /search-report-result.php. The manipulation of the argument q leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated 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 reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in PHPGurukul COVID19 Testing Management System 2021. The /search-report-result.php script does not properly sanitize user input in the 'q' parameter before reflecting it in the HTML output, allowing attackers to inject malicious JavaScript that executes in victim browsers.
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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= 2021CVSS 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
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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 COVID19 Testing Management System is installedLocate the application by searching for the presence of PHP files related to COVID testing management, typically in the web server document root. Look for directories containing 'covid' or 'phpgurukul' in the path.Affected if The application files are present on the server
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Identify the installed versionCheck version information in the application. Look for a version file, about page, or header/footer that displays the software version. The affected version is 2021.Affected if The installed version is 2021
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Locate the vulnerable scriptFind the file search-report-result.php in the web application directory structure.Affected if The file search-report-result.php exists in the application
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Inspect the 'q' parameter handlingOpen search-report-result.php and locate the code that handles the 'q' parameter from GET requests. Look for how the parameter value is retrieved and inserted into HTML output.Affected if The script retrieves the 'q' parameter and reflects it into HTML without visible sanitization functions such as htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities()
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Verify lack of output encodingExamine the lines where the 'q' parameter is used in the HTML response. Check if the value is wrapped in encoding functions before being output.Affected if User input from 'q' is directly echoed to HTML without context-aware escaping
The environment is affected if running PHPGurukul COVID19 Testing Management System version 2021 with the search-report-result.php script present and the 'q' parameter being reflected in HTML output without 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 dataImplement input validation and output encoding for the 'q' parameter in search-report-result.php. Apply context-aware escaping when reflecting user input back to the browser.
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