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CVE-2025-57759

Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields

Published: Aug 28, 2025Updated: Sep 2, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-269
4.3MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 84.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:NI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected Products

Packagist
package-ecosystem
contao/core-bundle
OSS Libraries
contao/contao
OSS Libraries
contao
oss-project·DEaka contao cms
contaoOn-prem
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/improper-privilege-management-for-page-and-article-fields
contao.org
https://github.com/contao/contao/commit/80ee7db12d55ad979d9b1b180f273d4e2668851f
github.com
https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-qqfq-7cpp-hcqj
github.com
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