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Improper Privilege Management

CVE-2025-57759

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In Contao versions starting from 5.3.0 through 5.3.37 and 5.4.0 through 5.6.0, 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.

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CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

An effective privilege management infrastructure provides valid users with required access and privileges across heterogeneous technology environments. An application with a faulty privilege management infrastructure allows higher than authorized privileges or enables privilege escalation. This can lead to security incidents such as system infiltration, data breach, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published