Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability Discovered in HortusFox (pending CVE-2025-65298)
Severity: Critical (CVSS 8.8) Disclosure Type: Responsible Disclosure Overview During a security assessment of HortusFox, I identified a critical SQL injection vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to execute arbitrary SQL queries against the application’s database. This flaw enables attackers to extract sensitive data, modify or delete records, escalate privileges, and potentially take full control of the application. The vulnerability has been confirmed as exploitable, and a tested patch has been provided to the maintainers to enable rapid remediation.