CVE-2025-8118

Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS

Published Sep 30, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-31712 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Widzialni
Widzialni pad Cms
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:widzialni:pad_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Widzialni
Widzialni pad Cms
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pad
Pad pad Cms
Vendors & Products Pad
Pad pad Cms
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS
Weaknesses CWE-307
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': '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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
CERT-PL
Published
Updated
Sep 30, 2025, 7:14 PM
Reserved
Jul 24, 2025, 2:23 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Sep 30, 2025, 11:37 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:06 AM