CVE-2025-57759 (GCVE-0-2025-57759)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-28 16:32 – Updated: 2025-08-28 17:16
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Title
Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields
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.
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
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
contao contao Affected: >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.38
Affected: >= 5.4.0-RC1, < 5.6.1
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