CVE-2025-50707

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 05 August 2025

Published

05 August 2025

Modified

14 August 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0169 82.4th percentile

Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-50707 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Thinkphp Thinkphp. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 17.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly requires timely remediation of the arbitrary code execution flaw in ThinkPHP 3.2.5's index.php component through identification, reporting, and correction of vulnerabilities.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Enforces validation of information inputs to the index.php component, preventing code injection exploits classified under CWE-94.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match

preventdetect

Implements boundary protection such as web application firewalls to monitor and control network traffic targeting the vulnerable index.php, blocking exploitation attempts.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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Why these techniques?

Direct RCE in public-facing ThinkPHP web component (CWE-94) enables remote exploitation of the application without auth.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

An issue in thinkphp3 v.3.2.5 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the index.php component

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-50707 is a critical vulnerability affecting ThinkPHP 3 version 3.2.5, where an issue in the index.php component enables arbitrary code execution. Published on 2025-08-05, it has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and is classified under CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code).

A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity, requiring no privileges, authentication, or user interaction. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Advisories and additional details are available in the referenced sources, including https://xinyisleep.github.io/2024-07-15/Thinkphp3.%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E5%8C%85%E5%90%AB-CNVD-2024-39045 and https://xinyisleep.github.io/CVE-2025-50707.md.