CISA Flags Craft CMS Vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 Amid Active Attacks
Feb 21, 2025
Web Security / Vulnerability
A high-severity security flaw impacting the Craft content management system (CMS) has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-23209 (CVSS score: 8.1), which impacts Craft CMS versions 4 and 5. It was addressed by the project maintainers in late December 2024 in versions 4.13.8 and 5.5.8. "Craft CMS contains a code injection vulnerability that allows for remote code execution as vulnerable versions have compromised user security keys," the agency said. The vulnerability affects the following version of the software - >= 5.0.0-RC1, < 5.5.5 >= 4.0.0-RC1, < 4.13.8 In an advisory released on GitHub, Craft CMS noted that all unpatched versions of Craft with a compromised security key are impacted by the security defect. "If you can't update to a patched version, then rota...