Vulnerability · Published Aug 5, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-8546atjiu pybbs Verification Code login Captcha
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity improper authentication in pybbs from atjiu. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 46% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in atjiu pybbs up to 6.0.0. This affects the function adminlogin/login of the component Verification Code Handler. The manipulation leads to guessable captcha. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ecaf8d46944fd03e3c4ea05698f8acf0aaa570cf. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-804, CWE-287 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
References
- VDB-318675 | atjiu pybbs Verification Code login Captcha vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-318675 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #622179 | atjiu https://github.com/atjiu/pybbs <=6.0.0 CAPTCHA reuse Vulnerability third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/atjiu/pybbs/issues/199 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/atjiu/pybbs/issues/199#issuecomment-3134573731 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/atjiu/pybbs/issues/199#issue-3256276118 exploit, issue-tracking
- https://github.com/atjiu/pybbs/commit/ecaf8d46944fd03e3c4ea05698f8acf0aaa570cf patch