CVE-2025-69944: Hospital Management System SQLi Flaw

CVE-2025-69944 Overview

CVE-2025-69944 is a SQL Injection vulnerability in kishan0725 Hospital Management System version 4.0. The flaw resides in the view-medhistory.php endpoint and is triggered through unsanitized input to the viewid parameter. Attackers can inject arbitrary SQL statements into backend database queries by manipulating this parameter. Successful exploitation allows extraction, modification, or deletion of records stored in the hospital management database, including patient medical history and administrative data. The vulnerability affects a healthcare-focused application, raising the stakes for confidentiality of protected health information. Public technical details are available in the TaintRadar SQL Injection CVE repository.

Critical Impact
Unauthenticated or authenticated attackers can exfiltrate or tamper with hospital records by injecting SQL via the viewid parameter.

Affected Products

kishan0725 Hospital Management System 4.0
view-medhistory.php endpoint
viewid request parameter

Discovery Timeline

2026-07-29 - CVE-2025-69944 published to NVD
2026-07-30 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-69944

Vulnerability Analysis

The Hospital Management System is a PHP and MySQL web application that manages patient records, appointments, and medical histories. The view-medhistory.php script accepts a viewid parameter through an HTTP request and concatenates the value directly into a SQL query executed against the backend database. Because the input is neither validated nor parameterized, an attacker can break out of the query context and append arbitrary SQL clauses. This is a classic in-band SQL injection pattern falling under [CWE-89]. The endpoint exposes sensitive medical history records, so exploitation can disclose protected patient data, alter treatment records, or drop tables that support core hospital workflows.

Root Cause

The root cause is the direct interpolation of user-controlled request input into a SQL statement without prepared statements or input sanitization. The viewid parameter is treated as a trusted integer identifier, but no server-side type enforcement or escaping is applied before the value is passed to the MySQL driver. This lets attackers close the original query, append UNION SELECT payloads, or introduce boolean and time-based conditions to enumerate the database schema.

Attack Vector

An attacker sends a crafted HTTP request to view-medhistory.php with a malicious viewid value containing SQL metacharacters. The vulnerability manifests remotely over the network and requires only the ability to reach the application's HTTP interface. See the TaintRadar advisory for the full request pattern and payload analysis.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-69944

Indicators of Compromise

HTTP requests to view-medhistory.php containing SQL metacharacters such as single quotes, UNION, SELECT, SLEEP(, or comment sequences in the viewid parameter.
Unusually long or URL-encoded values submitted to viewid that deviate from expected numeric identifiers.
Database error strings returned in HTTP responses referencing MySQL syntax errors near the viewid context.
Spikes in outbound data volume from the web server correlated with requests to view-medhistory.php.

Detection Strategies

Deploy a web application firewall rule that inspects the viewid parameter and rejects non-numeric input before it reaches PHP.
Enable MySQL general query logging temporarily to capture injected UNION SELECT or stacked query patterns targeting the medicalhistory table.
Correlate web access logs with database audit logs to identify sessions where a single client generated many failed or malformed queries.

Monitoring Recommendations

Monitor for authentication-free hits to view-medhistory.php from external IP ranges.
Alert on HTTP 500 responses from the endpoint, which often indicate SQL syntax errors during injection probing.
Track query response times against the endpoint to detect time-based blind injection using SLEEP() or BENCHMARK().

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-69944

Immediate Actions Required

Restrict public network access to the Hospital Management System until a patched build is deployed.
Add server-side validation that enforces viewid as a strict integer before any database call.
Rotate database credentials if logs show evidence of exploitation attempts against view-medhistory.php.
Review database audit logs for unauthorized SELECT, UPDATE, or DROP statements against patient tables.

Patch Information

No official vendor patch has been published in the NVD entry for CVE-2025-69944 at the time of writing. Operators should track the upstream kishan0725/Hospital-Management-System repository for fixes and refer to the TaintRadar advisory for remediation guidance.

Workarounds

Replace the vulnerable query in view-medhistory.php with a prepared statement using PDO or mysqli parameter binding.
Deploy a web application firewall signature that blocks SQL keywords in the viewid parameter.
Run the application database account under least privilege so it cannot alter schema or read unrelated tables.

bash

# Example PHP remediation using PDO prepared statements
$viewid = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'viewid', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT);
if ($viewid === false) {
    http_response_code(400);
    exit('Invalid viewid');
}
$stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT * FROM medicalhistory WHERE id = :viewid');
$stmt->execute([':viewid' => $viewid]);
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);