🛡️ CVE-2025-60790 — processwire

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-400 NVD
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Description

ProcessWire CMS vulnerable to resource-exhaustion Denial of Service

ProcessWire CMS 3.0.246 allows a low-privileged user with lang-edit to upload a crafted ZIP to Language Support that is auto-extracted without limits prior to validation, enabling resource-exhaustion Denial of Service.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-60790 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2025-60790 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • processwire (fixed in 3.0.246)
  • processwire/processwire

Timeline and source

Published on 21 October 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
processwire — 3.0.246
processwire/processwire — —

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