CVE-2026-127283SourceCodester Food Ordering System unrestricted file upload
CVE-2026-127283 is a unrestricted file upload in SourceCodester Food Ordering System, rated medium (5.5 on CVSS 4.0).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Deferred
What it is
Files of dangerous types can be uploaded, and the server may run or serve them. Access to a resource or action is not restricted to the people meant to have it.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it over the network, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker place a file the server will run or serve to others.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet.
What to do
- No fixed version is listed yet. Find every place SourceCodester Food Ordering System runs, watch the references for a fix, and plan a replacement if it is no longer supported.
- While there is no fix, keep it off the internet or behind a VPN, allowlist or authenticating proxy.
Description from NVD
A vulnerability was identified in SourceCodester Food Ordering System 1.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file admin/update_food.php of the component Admin Image Handler. Such manipulation of the argument cmd leads to unrestricted upload. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit is publicly available and might be used.
What this means for your architecture.
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Components it touches
- Upload endpoints and the storage behind them. The flaw sits between uploaded content and the servers that store or serve it.
- Permission checks in APIs and admin surfaces. The flaw sits between one role or tenant and another.
- Multi-tenant services. The flaw sits between one role or tenant and another.
Trust boundaries in play
- Internet-facing entry points. No account is needed. Any instance reachable from outside your perimeter, through a load balancer, gateway, VPN or exposed admin port, is in scope.
- Between uploaded content and the servers that store or serve it. An attacker who crosses it can place a file the server will run or serve to others.
- Between one role or tenant and another. An attacker who crosses it can reach data or actions their role should not allow.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does SourceCodester Food Ordering System run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
Sources
- CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
- Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.