Vulnerability in Projectworlds (CVE-2025-13573)
Summary
Vulnerability in Projectworlds (CVE-2025-13573). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A security flaw has been discovered in projectworlds can pass malicious payloads up to 1.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /add_book.php. The manipulation of the argument image results in unrestricted upload. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-13573 has been found in Projectworlds.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.3/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Projectworlds CVE-2025-13573" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-13573 (Projectworlds) — CWE-284 / CVSS v3 6.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-284) exists in Projectworlds.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Projectworlds.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Projectworlds' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Projectworlds' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Projectworldsを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- advisory cna@vuldb.com
- advisory cna@vuldb.com
- exploit cna@vuldb.com
- web cna@vuldb.com