CVE-2026-5558
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 flaw has been found in PHPGurukul PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal Project up to 2.1. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /pending-orders.php of the component Parameter Handler. This manipulation of the argument ID causes sql injection. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been published 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 · moderate confidenceSQL injection vulnerability in PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal (versions up to 2.1) in the /pending-orders.php file. The ID parameter passed to the component is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to inject malicious SQL queries remotely.
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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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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 Online Shopping Portal installationLocate the application's web root directory and identify if it contains the Online Shopping Portal codebase. Common locations include /var/www/html, /www, or C:\inetpub\wwwroot on Windows servers.Affected if The application is installed and accessible on the server.
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Check application versionLook for a version file, README, or any file containing version information within the application root. Compare the found version against the affected range (any version up to and including v2.1).Affected if The installed version is v2.1 or earlier.
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Verify the vulnerable file existsLocate the file /pending-orders.php within the application web root. This file should exist in the application's directory structure.Affected if The file /pending-orders.php is present in the application.
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Confirm database connectivityCheck if the application is configured with database connectivity. Review configuration files (such as config.php, db.php, or similar) for database connection strings.Affected if The application has an active database connection configured.
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Inspect the ID parameter handling in pending-orders.phpOpen /pending-orders.php and search for code handling the 'ID' or 'id' parameter (such as $_GET['id'], $_POST['id'], or $_REQUEST['id']). Check if this parameter is used directly in SQL queries without prepared statements, parameterized queries, or input sanitization functions.Affected if The ID parameter is used in SQL queries without proper sanitization or parameterized queries.
A user is affected if they are running PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal version 2.1 or earlier with the /pending-orders.php file present and the application connected to a database, where the ID parameter in that file is handled without prepared statements 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 with parameterized queries (prepared statements) and implement proper input validation on all user-supplied parameters in pending-orders.php.
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