CVE-2025-6860: Best Salon Management System SQLi Flaw

CVE-2025-6860 Overview

CVE-2025-6860 is a SQL injection vulnerability in SourceCodester Best Salon Management System 1.0, developed by Mayurik. The flaw resides in /panel/staff_commision.php, where the fromdate and todate parameters are passed to the underlying database query without proper sanitization. An authenticated remote attacker can manipulate these parameters to inject arbitrary SQL statements. The exploit has been publicly disclosed, increasing the likelihood of opportunistic exploitation against exposed installations. The issue is tracked under [CWE-89] (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command) and [CWE-74] (Injection).

Critical Impact
Authenticated remote attackers can extract, modify, or delete data in the application database by injecting SQL through the fromdate and todate parameters of the staff commission panel.

Affected Products

Mayurik Best Salon Management System 1.0
Component: /panel/staff_commision.php
CPE: cpe:2.3:a:mayurik:best_salon_management_system:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Discovery Timeline

2025-06-29 - CVE-2025-6860 published to NVD
2026-04-29 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-6860

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability exists in the staff commission reporting feature of Best Salon Management System 1.0. The script /panel/staff_commision.php accepts user-supplied fromdate and todate parameters and concatenates them directly into a SQL query string. No parameterized queries, prepared statements, or input validation are applied before query execution. As a result, an attacker can break out of the expected date literal and append arbitrary SQL clauses. The attacker requires low-level authenticated access to the application but no user interaction. Successful exploitation gives the attacker read and write capabilities against the backend database, exposing customer records, staff data, and financial information stored by the salon management application.

Root Cause

The root cause is improper neutralization of special characters in SQL queries [CWE-89]. The fromdate and todate HTTP request parameters are inserted into the SQL statement without parameterization or escaping, allowing attacker-controlled input to alter query semantics.

Attack Vector

The attack vector is the network. An authenticated user submits a crafted HTTP request to /panel/staff_commision.php with malicious payloads in the fromdate or todate parameters. Typical exploitation uses UNION-based or boolean-based blind SQL injection to enumerate tables, dump credentials, or modify data. Public exploitation guidance is available at the GitHub SQL Injection Guide and tracked at VulDB #314332.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-6860

Indicators of Compromise

HTTP POST or GET requests to /panel/staff_commision.php containing SQL meta-characters such as ', ", --, UNION, SELECT, or SLEEP( in the fromdate or todate parameters.
Unusual database errors logged by the PHP application referencing the staff commission query.
Spikes in response latency on staff commission endpoints, consistent with time-based blind SQL injection probing.
Unexpected outbound database queries returning large result sets to a low-privilege application user.

Detection Strategies

Deploy web application firewall (WAF) signatures that flag SQL keywords and tautologies within date-formatted parameters.
Enable database query logging and alert on queries originating from staff_commision.php that include UNION, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, or stacked statements.
Review authenticated session activity for users accessing /panel/staff_commision.php with abnormal parameter lengths.

Monitoring Recommendations

Forward webserver and PHP error logs to a centralized SIEM for correlation against known SQL injection patterns.
Monitor for repeated 4xx and 5xx responses on the staff commission endpoint, which often accompany injection probing.
Track database account activity for sudden schema enumeration or bulk data reads tied to the application service account.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-6860

Immediate Actions Required

Restrict access to /panel/staff_commision.php to trusted administrative IP addresses through web server access control rules.
Audit application user accounts and rotate credentials for any account that may have accessed the staff commission panel.
Deploy WAF rules that reject SQL meta-characters in the fromdate and todate parameters until a code fix is applied.

Patch Information

No official vendor patch is listed in the public references at the time of writing. Organizations running Best Salon Management System 1.0 should monitor the SourceCodester Resource Portal for updates and apply source-level fixes that introduce prepared statements (for example PDO::prepare with bound parameters) for all database queries built in /panel/staff_commision.php.

Workarounds

Modify /panel/staff_commision.php to validate that fromdate and todate strictly match a YYYY-MM-DD regular expression before query construction.
Refactor the affected query to use parameterized statements with bound variables to remove direct string concatenation.
Reduce the privileges of the application database user to the minimum required (read-only where possible) to limit injection impact.
Place the application behind an authenticated reverse proxy until a vendor patch is released.

bash

# Example Apache configuration restricting access to the vulnerable endpoint
<Location "/panel/staff_commision.php">
    Require ip 10.0.0.0/8
    Require ip 192.168.0.0/16
</Location>