CVE-2025-7181
Published: 08 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-7181 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Carmelo Staff Audit System. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 39.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
This control enforces ownership-based restrictions on portable storage device use, directly implementing access control over media insertion into organizational systems.
Hardware write-protect enforces access control on critical resources (e.g., firmware) independent of software state.
The access control policy and procedures directly mandate and enforce proper access control mechanisms across the organization.
Device lock enforces restricted access until re-authentication, directly reducing unauthorized use of active sessions.
Supervision and review of access control activities directly detects and remediates improper access configurations or usages.
Explicitly identifying and documenting actions permitted without identification or authentication enforces proper access control boundaries by defining justified exceptions.
By automatically labeling outputs with security attributes, the control supports attribute-based enforcement and reduces exploitability of improper access control weaknesses.
Associating and retaining security attributes with data directly supports enforcement of access control decisions across storage, processing, and transmission.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Unrestricted file upload in /test.php enables exploitation of public-facing web applications (T1190) and uploading arbitrary tools or malware (T1608.002), as explicitly mapped in advisories.
NVD Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in code-projects Staff Audit System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /test.php. The manipulation of the argument uploadedfile leads to unrestricted upload. It is possible to launch the…
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attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-7181 is a critical vulnerability in code-projects Staff Audit System 1.0, affecting an unknown function within the file /test.php. The issue stems from manipulation of the "uploadedfile" argument, enabling unrestricted file upload, as classified under CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) and CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type). It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and was published on 2025-07-08.
A remote attacker with low privileges, such as an authenticated user, can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially enabling the upload of malicious files.
Advisories and exploit details are documented in references such as VulDB entries (ctiid.315120, id.315120, submit.606917), the code-projects.org site, and a GitHub repository at github.com/kn1g78/cve/blob/main/staff2/staff2.md, where the exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used. No specific patch or mitigation steps are outlined in the available description.
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