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Description

A security vulnerability has been detected in PHPGurukul News Portal 1.0. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /onps/settings.py. Such manipulation of the argument SECRET_KEY leads to use of hard-coded cryptographic key . The attack may be performed from remote. The attack requires a high level of complexity. The exploitability is described as difficult. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-02 | Published 2025-11-03 | Updated 2026-02-24 | Assigner VulDB




LOW: 2.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
MEDIUM: 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
MEDIUM: 5.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR

Problem types

Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

Key Management Error

Product status

1.0
affected

Timeline

2025-11-02:Advisory disclosed
2025-11-02:VulDB entry created
2025-11-11:VulDB entry last update

Credits

Nishant_Kumar (VulDB User) reporter

References

github.com/...ject/blob/main/Hard-coded Cryptographic Key.md exploit

vuldb.com/?id.330909 (VDB-330909 | PHPGurukul News Portal settings.py hard-coded key) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/?ctiid.330909 (VDB-330909 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.678625 (Submit #678625 | PHPGurukul News Portal using Python Django and MySQL 1.0 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key) third-party-advisory

github.com/...ject/blob/main/Hard-coded Cryptographic Key.md exploit

phpgurukul.com/ product

cve.org (CVE-2025-12615)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12615)

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