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CVE-2025-57757: Contao discloses information in the news module

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions starting from 5.0.0 and prior to 5.3.38 and 5.6.1, if a news feed contains protected news archives, their news items are not filtered and become publicly available in the RSS feed. This issue has been patched in versions 5.3.38 and 5.6.1. A workaround involves not adding protected news archives to the news feed page.

Affected products

• contao: from 5.3.0 before 5.3.38; from 5.4.0 before 5.6.1 — fixed in 5.3.38, 5.6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: contao 5.3.38, 5.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/information-disclosure-in-the-news-module
• https://github.com/contao/contao/commit/e75f46b11974fbf7a4652e65c19ad6ca84c59271
• https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-w53m-gxvg-vx7p

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