CVE-2023-33440 — Sourcecodester Faculty Evaluation System v1

Sourcecodester Faculty Evaluation System v1.0 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via /eval/ajax.php?action=save_user.

01What is this vulnerability?

Sourcecodester Faculty Evaluation System v1.0 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via /eval/ajax.php?action=save_user.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-05-26T16:15:10.713
• Last modified: 2026-06-17T06:01:45.053

09References

• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172672/Faculty-Evaluation-System-1.0-Shell-…
• github.com — https://github.com/F14me7wq/bug_report/blob/main/vendors/oretnom23/faculty-evalu…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172672/Faculty-Evaluation-System-1.0-Shell-…
• github.com — https://github.com/F14me7wq/bug_report/blob/main/vendors/oretnom23/faculty-evalu…