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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-26124 Contao does not properly manage privileges for page and article fields
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-qqfq-7cpp-hcqj Contao does not properly manage privileges for page and article fields
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:45:00 +0900

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:contao:contao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:30:00 +0900

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First Time appeared Contao
Contao contao
Vendors & Products Contao
Contao contao

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:15:00 +0900

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Contao has improper privilege management for page and article fields
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


Projects

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-28T17:16:55.904Z

Reserved: 2025-08-19T15:16:22.916Z

Link: CVE-2025-57759

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-28T17:16:52.971Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-08-28T17:15:36.597

Modified: 2025-09-02T17:36:12.837

Link: CVE-2025-57759

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-08-29T06:21:40Z

Weaknesses