CVE-2025-8118 — Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS

CVE-2025-8118

Bruteforce Protection Bypass in PAD CMS PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Polska Akademia Dostępności / PAD CMS	affected 0 through 1.2.1

CWE

CWE-307

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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