# CVE-2025-50493: PHPGurukul Doctor Appointment Management System session hijacking in change-password.php

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-50493-phpgurukul-doctor-appointment-management-system-session-hijacking  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2025-07-28. Updated: 2026-07-05  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2025-50493 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.5 · Published 2025-07-28

A vulnerability exists in the PHPGurukul Doctor Appointment Management System, a platform used for managing medical appointments. The software fails to properly refresh or invalidate user sessions when a password is changed. This could allow an attacker to maintain unauthorized access to a doctor's account even after security credentials have been updated, potentially leading to the compromise of sensitive medical scheduling data.

Vendors: [Phpgurukul](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/phpgurukul).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2025-50493 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-50493 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2025-50493?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 28 July 2025.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Phpgurukul Doctor Appointment Management System 1.0.0.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2025-50493?** No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

**How is CVE-2025-50493 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.

**Am I affected by CVE-2025-50493?** Check whether you run Phpgurukul Doctor Appointment Management System at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

A Broken Access Control vulnerability exists in PHPGurukul Doctor Appointment Management System v1.0.0 within the /doctor/change-password.php component. The application fails to properly invalidate existing sessions or implement secure session fixation protections during sensitive operations. An attacker can exploit this by fixing a known session ID or capturing a session token; because the system does not refresh the session identifier upon authentication or password changes, the attacker can maintain persistent, unauthorized access to the victim's account. This allows for session hijacking and subsequent account takeover.

## Affected products

- PHPGurukul Doctor Appointment Management System 1.0.0

## Timeline

- 2025-07-28: advisory: Initial NVD publication
- 2025-07-28: disclosed: Vulnerability discovered by Vasil VK

## References

- [http://doctor.com/](http://doctor.com/)
- [https://github.com/VasilVK/CVE/tree/main/CVE-2025-50493](https://github.com/VasilVK/CVE/tree/main/CVE-2025-50493)