Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Phpgurukul (CVE-2025-40693)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in Phpgurukul (CVE-2025-40693). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Stored Cross Site Scripting in Online Fire Reporting System v1.2 by PHPGurukul, that consists in a reflected and stored authenticated XSS due to the lack of propper validation of user inputs 'tname' parameter via GET and, 'teamleadname', 'teammember' and 'teamname'
parameters via POST at the endpoint '/ofrs/admin/edit-team.php'. This vulnerability could allow a remote user to send a specially crafted query to an authenticated user and steal its cookie session details.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-40693 has been found in Phpgurukul.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.4/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Phpgurukul CVE-2025-40693" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-40693 (Phpgurukul) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 5.4
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in Phpgurukul.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Phpgurukul.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.4/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Phpgurukul' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Phpgurukul' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Phpgurukulを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- advisory cve-coordination@incibe.es