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GHSA-XPHG-W288-5VJW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-30 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-26 15:34

Details

PAD CMS implements weak client-side brute-force protection by utilizing two cookies: login_count and login_timeout. Information about attempt count or timeout is not stored on the server, which allows a malicious attacker to bypass this brute-force protection by resetting those cookies. This issue affects all 3 templates: www, bip and www+bip.

This product is End-Of-Life and producent will not publish patches for this vulnerability.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2025-8118 (GCVE-0-2025-8118)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-30 10:04 – Updated: 2025-09-30 19:14 Unsupported When Assigned

Title

Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS

Summary

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-09-30 19:14 UTC

CWE

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Assigner

CERT-PL ENISA root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://cert.pl/posts/2025/09/CVE-2025-7063

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Polska Akademia Dostępności	PAD CMS	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2.1 (semver)

Date Public

2025-09-30 09:55

Credits

Mateusz Jurczak (CERT.PL)

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