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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2025-8118 EUVD-2025-31712GHSA-xphg-w288-5vjw

Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS

Published Sep 30, 2025 · Updated Sep 30, 2025 · Assigned by CERT-PL

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Polska Akademia Dostępności PAD CMS ≤ 1.2.1 —

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