CVE-2025-55737 (GCVE-0-2025-55737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-19 19:06
Modified
2025-08-19 19:27
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Summary
flaskBlog is a blog app built with Flask. In 2.8.0 and earlier, when deleting a comment, there's no validation of the ownership of the comment. Every user can delete an arbitrary comment of another user on every post, by simply intercepting the delete request and changing the commentID. The code that causes the problem is in routes/post.py.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/DogukanUrker/FlaskBlog/security/advisories/GHSA-6hp9-jv2f-88wrThird Party Advisory, Exploit
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
DogukanUrker FlaskBlog Version: <= 2.8.0
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