CVE-2025-5712: SourceCodester Open Source Clinic Management System appointment.php sql injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-5712 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Injection vulnerability in nikhil-bhalerao open_source_clinic_management_system. EPSS estimates a 0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 06-06-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 09-06-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability has been found in SourceCodester Open Source Clinic Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /appointment.php. The manipulation of the argument patient leads to sql injection. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

• CWE-74Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.
• CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.