Cyber-III Student-Management-System up to 1a938fa61e9f735078e9b291d2e6215b4942af3f HTTP POST Request /viva/update.php Name improper authorization

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Cyber-III Student-Management-System up to 1a938fa61e9f735078e9b291d2e6215b4942af3f. This impacts an unknown function of the file /viva/update.php of the component HTTP POST Request Handler. Such manipulation of the argument Name leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-5642. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available. This product takes the approach of rolling releases to provide continious delivery. Therefore, version details for affected and updated releases are not available. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cyber-III Student-Management-System up to 1a938fa61e9f735078e9b291d2e6215b4942af3f. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file /viva/update.php of the component HTTP POST Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument name with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-5642. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1548.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet. By approaching the search of inurl:viva/update.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.

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• Cyber-III

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• Student-Management-System

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• 1a938fa61e9f735078e9b291d2e6215b4942af3f

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• Product: https://github.com/Cyber-III/Student-Management-System/

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Accepted

• Submit #785857: Cyber-III Student-Management-System 1.0 Insecure Direct Object Reference (by xhh400plus)

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