CVE-2025-70151
Published: 18 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-70151 is a high-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability in Fabian Scholars Tracking System. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 43.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); 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-9 (Information Input Restrictions).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-70151 is an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in code-projects Scholars Tracking System 1.0 that enables remote code execution. The affected endpoints, update_profile_picture.php and upload_picture.php, store user-uploaded files in a web-accessible uploads/ directory using the original, user-supplied filename without any validation of file type or extension. This allows attackers to upload malicious PHP files, which can then be directly accessed and executed from /uploads/ as the web server user. The vulnerability is rated with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and maps to CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type).
An authenticated attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). By uploading a PHP webshell or script via the profile picture upload functions and subsequently requesting it from the /uploads/ directory, the attacker achieves arbitrary code execution with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), running in the context of the web server process.
References for further details include the project source code page at https://code-projects.org/scholars-tracking-system-in-php-with-source-code/ and a technical write-up at https://youngkevinn.github.io/posts/CVE-2025-70151-Scholars-FileUpload-RCE/. The CVE description does not specify patches or vendor-provided mitigations.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-207783
Vulnerability details
code-projects Scholars Tracking System 1.0 allows an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution via unrestricted file upload. The endpoints update_profile_picture.php and upload_picture.php store uploaded files in a web-accessible uploads/ directory using the original, user-supplied filename without validating the file…
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type or extension. By uploading a PHP file and then requesting it from /uploads/, an attacker can execute arbitrary PHP code as the web server user.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unrestricted file upload in a public-facing web application (T1190) enables authenticated attackers to upload and execute PHP web shells directly from the web-accessible directory (T1100).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Requires validation of uploaded files at the endpoints to reject dangerous types and extensions like PHP, directly preventing unrestricted file uploads leading to RCE.
Enforces restrictions on file uploads such as allowed MIME types, extensions, sizes, and filenames to block malicious PHP files from being stored.
Deploys malicious code scanning at web application entry points to identify and block PHP webshells during upload.