CVE-2025-57759 (GCVE-0-2025-57759)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-28 16:32
Modified
2025-08-28 17:16
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions starting from 5.3.0 and prior to 5.3.38 and 5.6.1, under certain conditions, back end users may be able to edit fields of pages and articles without having the necessary permissions. This issue has been patched in versions 5.3.38 and 5.6.1. There are no workarounds.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://contao.org/en/security-advisories/improper-privilege-management-for-page-and-article-fieldsVendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/contao/contao/commit/80ee7db12d55ad979d9b1b180f273d4e2668851fPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-qqfq-7cpp-hcqjPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
contao contao Version: >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.38
Version: >= 5.4.0-RC1, < 5.6.1
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