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Status published
Medium
CVE-2025-57759
Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Vulnerable Versions:
>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.38, >= 5.4.0-RC1, < 5.6.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 28th, 2025
Last Modified:
August 28th, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N