# CVE-2023-3605: PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal Registration Page excessive authentication

> Attackers can bypass authentication rate limits on the registration page, potentially enabling brute-force attacks against user accounts.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j52c-x4fq-cc7v

## What is CVE-2023-3605?

CVE-2023-3605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal, published on 10 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal 1.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Registration Page. The manipulation leads to improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts. The attack can be launched remotely. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-233467.

Weakness: CWE-307 (Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3605?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Phpgurukul Online Shopping Portal.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-3605?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3605 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-3605 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3605 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal

- [CVE-2024-44659](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-44659/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-46110](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-46110/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-57148](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57148/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2023-38890](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38890/): SQL injection in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-37772](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37772/): SQL injection in n/a (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-3605 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-3605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal, published on 10 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3605 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3605/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3605/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3605
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3605
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-3605

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3605/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.