CVE-2020-5191PHPGurukul Hospital Management System in PHP v4.0 suffers from multiple Persistent XSS vulnerabilities.
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 7.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
PHPGurukul Hospital Management System in PHP v4.0 suffers from multiple Persistent XSS vulnerabilities.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Nuclei templates1 template
- PHPGurukul Hospital Management System - Cross-Site Scripting (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2020/CVE-2020-5191.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Hospital Management System 4.0 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 47841webapps, phppublished 2 Jan 2020Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.5% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References2
- https://phpgurukul.com/hospital-management-system-in-php/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47841 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-26435 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-5191)Record last updated .