🛡️ CVE-2025-70151 — scholars-tracking-system

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-434 NVD
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Description

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 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-70151 is classified as CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type. Uploads are accepted without restricting type, so an executable file can be placed where the server will run it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-70151 is recorded against 1 package.

  • scholars-tracking-system

Timeline and source

Published on 18 February 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

code-projects.org
youngkevinn.github.io

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-434
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
scholars-tracking-system — —

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