CVE-2025-57759

Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Aug 28, 2025
Updated: Aug 28, 2025
Reserved: Aug 19, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
contaocontao	>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.38Affected >= 5.4.0-RC1, < 5.6.1Affected

References

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