CVE-2025-57805 The Scratch Channel's Publish Articles POST Request Can Upload Articles Without Validation
Attackers can publish articles in any category with arbitrary dates without proper authorization checks, allowing unauthorized content modification.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-57805?
CVE-2025-57805 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in The-Scratch-Channel tsc-web-client, published on 25 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Scratch Channel is a news website. In versions 1 and 1.1, a POST request to the endpoint used to publish articles, can be used to post an article in any category with any date, regardless of who's logged in. This issue has been patched in version 1.2.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-57805?
How do I fix CVE-2025-57805?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-57805 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-57805 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-57805 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h5rj-2466-qr23.