VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2025-55736
In 2.8.0 and earlier, an arbitrary user can change his role to "admin", giving its relative privileges (e.g. delete users, posts, comments etc.).
CRITICAL 9.3EPSS 0.27%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
flaskBlog is a blog app built with Flask. In 2.8.0 and earlier, an arbitrary user can change his role to "admin", giving its relative privileges (e.g. delete users, posts, comments etc.). The problem is in the routes/adminPanelUsers file.
- CVSS 4.0
- 9.3 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/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/M
- EPSS
- 0.27% probability · 19th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-425, CWE-807
- Affected
- dogukanurker/flaskblog
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/DogukanUrker/FlaskBlog/security/advisories/GHSA-6q83-vfmq-wf72Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.