{"id":"CVE-2025-66204","aliases":["EUVD-2025-201840","GHSA-f676-f375-m7mw"],"status":"published","title":"WBCE CMS allows brute-force protection bypass using X-Forwarded-For header","description":"WBCE CMS is a content management system. Version 1.6.4 contains a brute-force protection bypass where an attacker can indefinitely reset the counter by modifying `X-Forwarded-For` on each request, gaining unlimited password guessing attempts, effectively bypassing all brute-force protection. The application fully trusts the `X-Forwarded-For` header without validating it or restricting its usage. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.5.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00512,"percentile":0.44112,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":true,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-307","CWE-693"],"published":"2025-12-08T23:50:58Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:54Z","exploits":[{"source":"pocgithub","id":"lukasz-rybak/CVE-2025-66204","title":"lukasz-rybak/CVE-2025-66204","date":"2026-04-11","url":"https://github.com/lukasz-rybak/CVE-2025-66204"}],"products":[{"vendor":"wbce","product":"wbce_cms"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/WBCE/WBCE_CMS/security/advisories/GHSA-f676-f375-m7mw","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","exploit","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/WBCE/WBCE_CMS/commit/3765baddf27f31bbbea9c0228c452268621b25e5","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/WBCE/WBCE_CMS/releases/tag/1.6.5","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Release Notes","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/66xxx/CVE-2025-66204.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66204","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-66204","title":"WBCE CMS allows brute-force protection bypass using X-Forwarded-For header","description":"WBCE CMS is a content management system. Version 1.6.4 contains a brute-force protection bypass where an attacker can indefinitely reset the counter by modifying `X-Forwarded-For` on each request, gaining unlimited password guessing attempts, effectively bypassing all brute-force protection. The application fully trusts the `X-Forwarded-For` header without validating it or restricting its usage. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.5.","status":"published","published":"2025-12-08T23:50:58.647Z","modified":"2025-12-09T16:03:59.128Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":6.3,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-307","CWE-693"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:53.475217Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-201840","description":"WBCE CMS is a content management system. 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