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Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-50489 describes a session handling weakness in PHPGurukul Student Result Management System v2.0. If the application does not properly invalidate sessions around password changes, an attacker with a captured session could continue abusing it. The supplied sources do not identify a vendor patch or confirmed exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as high priority for any exposed school or student-results portal because account session abuse can undermine trust and access control. Prioritize confirmation of use, exposure reduction, and vendor remediation tracking before assuming a patch exists.
Technical view
The record points to /srms/change-password.php and describes improper session invalidation enabling session hijacking. The CVE lists CVSS 3.1 score 7.5 high, but the vector shows availability-only impact, which does not fully align with session hijacking. CWE is listed as CWE-20, and affected CPE metadata is absent.
Likely exposure
Likely exposure is limited to reachable deployments of PHPGurukul Student Result Management System v2.0 using the /srms/change-password.php component. The official affected vendor, product, version, and CPE fields are marked n/a in the supplied bundle, so inventory confirmation is required.
Exploitation context
The supplied bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or other evidence of active exploitation. A GitHub reference is listed, suggesting public technical detail may exist, but the prompt does not provide enough evidence to claim exploitation in the wild.
Researcher notes
Evidence is incomplete. The CVE description, title, CWE, and CVSS vector are not perfectly aligned, and affected product metadata is missing despite the description naming PHPGurukul Student Result Management System v2.0. Avoid overclaiming impact until the referenced GitHub material and vendor guidance are reviewed.
Mitigation direction
- Check PHPGurukul or project guidance for a fixed release or advisory.
- Restrict public access to administrative or student-result management portals where possible.
- Invalidate all active sessions after password changes and account security events.
- Rotate session identifiers after authentication and privilege changes.
- Monitor for session reuse after password changes or logout events.
Validation and detection
- Inventory deployments for PHPGurukul Student Result Management System v2.0.
- Confirm whether /srms/change-password.php is reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review application behavior for session invalidation after password change.
- Check logs for continued use of sessions after password updates.
- Compare local code with any vendor or project remediation guidance.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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SSVC decision data
CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H3.93.6CISA-ADPVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.5HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/VasilVK/CVE/tree/main/CVE-2025-50489CVE reference, mitre
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CWE details
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Improper Input Validation
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