# CVE-2025-40694: Cross Site Scripting in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System

> Stored XSS in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System allows attackers to steal session cookies from authenticated users via crafted input.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 11 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p2cr-7737-pf4v

## What is CVE-2025-40694?

CVE-2025-40694 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System, published on 11 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Stored Cross Site Scripting in Online Fire Reporting System v1.2 by PHPGurukul, that consists in a stored authenticated XSS due to the lack of propper validation of user inputs 'fromdate' and 'todate' parameters via POST at the endpoint '/ofrs/admin/bwdates-report-result.php'. This vulnerability could allow a remote user to send a specially crafted query to an authenticated user and steal its cookie session details.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40694?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Phpgurukul Online Fire Reporting System.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-40694?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-40694 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-40694 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40694 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System

- [CVE-2025-40687](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40687/): SQL injection in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-40689](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40689/): SQL injection in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-40690](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40690/): SQL injection in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-40691](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40691/): SQL injection in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2025-40692](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40692/): SQL injection in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System (critical 9.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40694 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-40694 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System, published on 11 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40694 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PHPGurukul Online Fire Reporting System. 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-2025-40694/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40694/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40694
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40694
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-40694

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40694/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.