PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System manage-teachers.php path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System. This affects an unknown function of the file manage-teachers.php. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-28072. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System (affected version unknown). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the file manage-teachers.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in manage-teachers.php.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-28072 since 03/11/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:manage-teachers.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-11493). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• PHPGurukul

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• Pre-School Enrollment System

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• free

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• Vendor: https://phpgurukul.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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