Medium severity · published Aug 28, 2025
CVE-2025-57759
Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
contao · contao
>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.38; >= 5.4.0-RC1, < 5.6.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57759
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-57759
Vendor Advisory
https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/improper-privilege-management-for-page-and-article-fields
Patch
https://github.com/contao/contao/commit/80ee7db12d55ad979d9b1b180f273d4e2668851f
Patch
https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-qqfq-7cpp-hcqj
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