Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS

published 2025-09-30 last yr. modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2025-31712

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2025-09-30)

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	6.9	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
CNA	4.0	6.9	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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Polska Akademia Dostępności PAD CMS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

cert.pl /posts/2025/09/CVE-2025-7063
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-8118
NVD CVE-2025-8118

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