CVE-2025-8118

Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS

State: Published
Severity: 6.9 Medium
Published: Sep 30, 2025
Updated: Sep 30, 2025
Reserved: Jul 24, 2025

Description

PAD CMS implements weak client-side brute-force protection by utilizing two cookies: login_count and login_timeout. Information about attempt count or timeout is not stored on the server, which allows a malicious attacker to bypass this brute-force protection by resetting those cookies. This issue affects all 3 templates: www, bip and www+bip.

This product is End-Of-Life and producent will not publish patches for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.9 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CERT-PL

Weaknesses

CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAD CMSPolska Akademia Dostępności	1.2.1 and earlierAffected

References

https://cert.pl/posts/2025/09/CVE-2025-7063

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