PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System 1.0 update-teacher-pic.php path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System 1.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the file update-teacher-pic.php. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-50349. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System 1.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the file update-teacher-pic.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PHPGurukul Pre-School Enrollment System Project V1.0 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in update-teacher-pic.php.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-50349 since 06/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/25/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:update-teacher-pic.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-2025-18924). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• PHPGurukul

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• Pre-School Enrollment System

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• 1.0

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://phpgurukul.com/

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