CVE-2025-57130
📋 TL;DR
An incorrect access control vulnerability in ZwiiCMS allows authenticated low-privilege users to escalate privileges by accessing and modifying any user's profile data, including administrators. This affects ZwiiCMS installations up to version 13.6.07. Attackers can compromise administrative accounts and take full control of the CMS.
💻 Affected Systems
- ZwiiCMS
📦 What is this software?
Zwiicms by Zwiicms
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete system compromise where an attacker gains administrative access, modifies all user data, installs backdoors, and potentially accesses underlying server infrastructure.
Likely Case
Privilege escalation leading to unauthorized data modification, account takeover, and potential lateral movement within the CMS environment.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper network segmentation, strong authentication controls, and monitoring detecting unusual privilege escalation attempts.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access but involves simple HTTP request manipulation. The vulnerability is well-documented in security advisories.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: v13.6.08 or later
Vendor Advisory: http://zwiicms.com
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Backup your current installation. 2. Download the latest version from the official ZwiiCMS website. 3. Replace all files with the new version, preserving configuration files. 4. Verify the update completed successfully.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Temporary Access Restriction
allRestrict access to user management endpoints via web server configuration
# For Apache: add to .htaccess
<FilesMatch "user.*\.php">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
# For Nginx: add to server block
location ~ /user.*\.php$ {
deny all;
}
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict network access controls to limit CMS access to trusted IP addresses only.
- Enable detailed logging of all user management actions and monitor for unauthorized access attempts.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check your ZwiiCMS version in the admin panel or by examining the version file. If version is 13.6.07 or earlier, you are vulnerable.Check Version:
Check admin panel dashboard or examine /core/version.php file contentsVerify Fix Applied:
After updating, verify the version shows 13.6.08 or later. Test that low-privilege users cannot access other user profiles via the user management interface.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual user profile modification requests from non-admin accounts
- Multiple failed privilege escalation attempts
- User ID parameter manipulation in access logs
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to user management endpoints with modified user ID parameters
- Unusual traffic patterns to /user/ endpoints
SIEM Query:
source="web_access_logs" AND (uri_path="/user/" OR uri_path="/admin/user/") AND user_privilege="low" AND (http_method="POST" OR http_method="PUT")