CVE-2025-11475
📋 TL;DR
Advanced Library Management System 1.0 contains a SQL injection vulnerability in the view_member.php file through the user_id parameter. Attackers can remotely execute arbitrary SQL commands to potentially access, modify, or delete database content. All systems running this software version are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Advanced Library Management System
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete database compromise including data theft, data manipulation, authentication bypass, and potential server takeover via SQL injection to RCE chaining.
Likely Case
Unauthorized data access and extraction of sensitive information like user credentials, personal data, and library records.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper input validation and database permissions restricting damage to non-critical data.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploit details are publicly available on GitHub. The vulnerability requires no authentication and has simple exploitation vectors.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Unknown
Vendor Advisory: None found
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
No official patch available. Consider implementing input validation and parameterized queries manually or replacing the software.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Input Validation Filter
allAdd server-side validation to ensure user_id parameter contains only numeric values
Modify view_member.php to include: if(!is_numeric($_GET['user_id'])) { die('Invalid input'); }
Web Application Firewall Rule
allBlock SQL injection patterns targeting the view_member.php endpoint
WAF rule: Block requests to /view_member.php containing SQL keywords in parameters
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict network access to the application using firewall rules to allow only trusted IPs
- Implement database user with minimal permissions (read-only if possible) for the application
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Test the /view_member.php endpoint with SQL injection payloads like: /view_member.php?user_id=1' OR '1'='1Check Version:
Check software documentation or configuration files for version informationVerify Fix Applied:
Verify that SQL injection payloads no longer execute and return error messages or are properly sanitized📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual SQL errors in application logs
- Multiple rapid requests to view_member.php with varying user_id parameters
- Requests containing SQL keywords like UNION, SELECT, OR 1=1
Network Indicators:
- HTTP requests to /view_member.php with SQL injection patterns in parameters
- Unusual database query patterns from the application server
SIEM Query:
source="web_logs" AND uri_path="/view_member.php" AND (user_id="*'*" OR user_id="*OR*" OR user_id="*UNION*" OR user_id="*SELECT*")