CVE-2026-5558: PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal SQL injection in pending-orders.php

CVE-2026-5558 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.3 · Published 2026-04-05

A security vulnerability exists in the PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal Project, a web application used for managing e-commerce operations. An attacker can exploit this flaw to gain unauthorized access to the underlying database, potentially leading to the theft of customer information or the disruption of store operations. This issue occurs because the system does not properly verify specific order-related requests before processing them.

Technologies: Phpgurukul Online Shopping Portal Project. Vendors: Phpgurukul.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-5558 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-5558 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-5558?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.3, published 5 April 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
Phpgurukul Online Shopping Portal Project Up to 2.1.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-5558?
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-2026-5558 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-5558?
Check whether you run Phpgurukul Online Shopping Portal Project 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 SQL injection vulnerability exists in PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal Project up to version 2.1. The flaw is located in the '/pending-orders.php' file within the Parameter Handler component. The root cause is the failure to sanitize or validate the 'id' GET parameter before using it in a database query. A remote attacker with low privileges can provide a malicious payload (such as time-based blind SQL injection) to execute unauthorized database operations, leak sensitive data, or tamper with records. A proof-of-concept exploit using time-based blind techniques has been publicly disclosed.

Affected products

  • PHPGurukul Online Shopping Portal Project Up to 2.1

Timeline

  • 2026-03-19: disclosed: Vulnerability details and PoC shared on GitHub by researcher f1rstb100d.
  • 2026-04-05: advisory: Initial advisory published by VulDB.

References

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