CVE-2025-57759 — Improper Privilege Management in Contao

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management4 documents4 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 88.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ContaoContao Core-bundle
Timeline
PublishedAug 28

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:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDcontao/contao5.3.0 — 5.3.38+1
▶Packagistcontao/contao5.3.0 — 5.3.38+1
▶Packagistcontao/core-bundle5.3.0 — 5.3.38+1
▶CVEListV5contao/contao>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.38, >= 5.4.0-RC1, < 5.6.1+1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
Contao does not properly manage privileges for page and article fields↗2025-08-28
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GHSA
Contao does not properly manage privileges for page and article fields↗2025-08-28
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CVEList
Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields↗2025-08-28
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