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CVE-2021-4462

46
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-4462 is an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in Employee Records System version 1.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary files through the uploadID.php endpoint due to a lack of server-side validation. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) has a low attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not in CISA's KEV catalog, exploitation evidence was observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2025-02-06 UTC, and Nuclei templates exist for exploitation, indicating active threat actor interest despite minimal public discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:skittles:employee_records_system:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.3CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2021-4462 · Nov 25, 2025
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0324 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exploit-db.com / exploits/49596
Exploit
sourcecodester.com / php/11393/employee-records-system.html
Product
vulncheck.com / advisories/employees-records-system-arbitrary-file-upload-rce
Third Party Advisory