High severity · published Jul 26, 2025
CVE-2025-54378
HAX CMS Backend Lacks Comprehensive Authorization Checks
8.3
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HAX CMS allows you to manage your microsite universe with PHP or NodeJs backends. In versions 11.0.13 and below of haxcms-nodejs and versions 11.0.8 and below of haxcms-php, API endpoints do not perform authorization checks when interacting with a resource. Both the JS and PHP versions of the CMS do not verify that a user has permission to interact with a resource before performing a given operation. The API endpoints within the HAX CMS application check if a user is authenticated, but don't check for authorization before performing an operation. This is fixed in versions 11.0.14 of haxcms-nodejs and 11.0.9 of haxcms-php.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IS
issues · haxtheweb
< 11.0.14 · source: vendor
HA
Haxcms-nodejs · Psu
before 11.0.14 · source: NVD
HA
Haxcms-php · Psu
before 11.0.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54378
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54378
Patch
https://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs/commit/5826e9b7f3d8c7c7635411768b86b199fad36969
Patch
https://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-php/commit/24d30222481ada037597c4d7c0a51a1ef7af6cfd
Exploit
https://github.com/haxtheweb/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-9jr9-8ff3-m894
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