CWE-804

Guessable CAPTCHA

The product uses a CAPTCHA challenge, but the challenge can be guessed or automatically recognized by a non-human actor.

CVE-2025-8546 (GCVE-0-2025-8546)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-05 05:02
Modified
2025-08-05 16:17
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in atjiu pybbs up to 6.0.0. This affects the function adminlogin/login of the component Verification Code Handler. The manipulation leads to guessable captcha. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ecaf8d46944fd03e3c4ea05698f8acf0aaa570cf. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
atjiu pybbs Version: 6.0
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