Overview
CVE-2025-56214 is a high-severity vulnerability that has been identified in the phpgurukul Hospital Management System 4.0. This vulnerability, an SQL Injection flaw, leaves the software susceptible to potential data breaches and system compromise. SQL Injection is a common web application attack that manipulates the SQL queries to gain unauthorized access to the database. Given that the Hospital Management System stores sensitive patient and hospital data, this vulnerability poses a significant risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-56214
Severity: High (CVSS: 9.8)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Impact: Potential system compromise and data leakage
Affected Products
Escape the Surveillance Era
Most apps won’t tell you the truth.
They’re part of the problem.
Phone numbers. Emails. Profiles. Logs.
It’s all fuel for surveillance.
Ameeba Chat gives you a way out.
- • No phone number
- • No email
- • No personal info
- • Anonymous aliases
- • End-to-end encrypted
Chat without a trace.
Product | Affected Versions
phpgurukul Hospital Management System | 4.0
How the Exploit Works
The vulnerability arises in the index.php file of the phpgurukul Hospital Management System, wherein the ‘username’ parameter is not properly sanitized before being used within an SQL query. An attacker can exploit this by injecting malicious SQL code into the ‘username’ field in the login form. This malicious SQL code can modify the query to bypass authentication, extract sensitive data, or even execute commands with database privileges.
Conceptual Example Code
An example HTTP request exploiting this vulnerability could look like this:
POST /index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: targetHospital.com
username=' OR '1'='1'; -- &password=anythingIn this example, the SQL statement in the back-end might look something like this:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='' OR '1'='1'; -- ' AND password='anything'As ‘1’ equals ‘1’ is always true, this SQL statement will return the first user in the users table. If that user is an administrator, the attacker will gain administrative access to the Hospital Management System.
Mitigation and Prevention
Users of the phpgurukul Hospital Management System 4.0 are advised to apply the vendor patch immediately to remediate this vulnerability. In the absence of a patch, the use of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can provide temporary mitigation. However, these are not long-term solutions, as they only detect and prevent known exploits, and may not defend against new or modified attacks.
Additionally, developers should also follow best practices such as the use of parameterized queries or prepared statements to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities from arising in the first place.