GHSA-cqx4-9vqf-q3m8 CVE-2025-5257
Mautic's Predictable Page Indexing Might Lead to Sensitive Data Exposure
- Severity
- 6.5 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.36%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 30.33% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Fix
4.4.16- Upgrade mautic/core to this version or later
Description
Summary
This advisory addresses a security vulnerability in Mautic where unpublished page previews could be accessed by unauthenticated users and potentially indexed by search engines. This could lead to the unintended disclosure of draft content or sensitive information.
Unauthorized Access to Unpublished Page Previews: The page preview functionality for unpublished content, accessible via predictable URLs (e.g., /page/preview/1, /page/preview/2), lacked proper authorization checks. This allowed any unauthenticated user to view content that was not yet intended for public release, and allowed search engines to index these private preview URLs, making the content publicly discoverable.
Mitigation
Mautic has patched this vulnerability by enforcing proper permission checks on preview pages. Users should upgrade to the patched version of Mautic or later.
Affected versions
Packagist
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| mautic/core | >= 4.0.0, < 4.4.16 |
4.4.16 |
| mautic/core | >= 5.0.0-alpha, < 5.2.6 |
5.2.6 |
| mautic/core | >= 6.0.0-alpha, < 6.0.2 |
6.0.2 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
mautic/core Packagist → 4.4.16
- composer
composer require mautic/core:^4.4.16
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Low
Weakness
CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
The product receives input that is expected to specify a quantity (such as size or length), but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the quantity has the required properties.
How to prevent it
- Implementation: Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does. When performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, "boat" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as "red" or "blue." Do not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design, Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
- Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
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|---|---|---|
| GHSA-5hvg-w58j-545m Mautic has Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Project Option Selector | Medium | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-7h65-whp7-rgqf Mautic has Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Projects Component | High | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-2jrw-c95w-h43g Mautic has an Authorization Bypass in API v2 Endpoints | High | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-6r9h-4h75-7q4x Mautic vulnerable to Path Traversal via Campaign Import | Critical | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-9fx4-7cmj-47vg Mautic has Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) in Theme Templates | Critical | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-jmv8-8j9j-rcpc Mautic Focus component Vulnerable to SSRF | Medium | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-fcmw-wx57-9p75 Mautic has SQL Injection in API Contact Filtering | High | Also affects mautic/core |
| GHSA-r5j5-q42h-fc93 Mautic is Vulnerable to SQL Injection through Contact Activity API Sorting | High | Also affects mautic/core |
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