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CVE-2025-66204: wbce cms before 1.6.5 (exclusive); +1 more affected products

CVE-2025-66204. CVSS 3.1 base score 8.1 (HIGH, NVD). EPSS 0.00477 (percentile 0.39134), scored 2026-10-06.

Affected technology

wbce cms · before 1.6.5 (exclusive)
wbce

WBCE_CMS · >= 1.6.4, < 1.6.5
WBCE

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

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. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 6.3/10) rates confidentiality impact as low; integrity and availability impact as none.

Published 2026-10-07 23:05:40.064760+00:00

CWE: CWE-307, CWE-693
CCR priority: 32.5 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 8.1 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · NVD
EPSS: 0.00477 · percentile 0.39134 · 2026-10-06
KEV: no

Provenance

NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 23:02:50.240617+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-66204.html