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Critical
CVE-2025-55736
flaskBlog allows arbitrary privilege escalation
Vulnerability Description
flaskBlog is a blog app built with Flask. In 2.8.0 and earlier, an arbitrary user can change his role to "admin", giving its relative privileges (e.g. delete users, posts, comments etc.). The problem is in the routes/adminPanelUsers file.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Vulnerable Versions:
<= 2.8.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 19th, 2025
Last Modified:
August 19th, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
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