CVE-2025-15005 | THREATINT

Description

A security flaw has been discovered in CouchCMS up to 2.4. Affected is an unknown function of the file couch/config.example.php of the component reCAPTCHA Handler. The manipulation of the argument K_RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY/K_RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY results in use of hard-coded cryptographic key . It is possible to launch the attack remotely. This attack is characterized by high complexity. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-21 | Published 2025-12-22 | Updated 2025-12-22 | Assigner VulDB

MEDIUM: 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

LOW: 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

LOW: 3.7CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR

Problem types

Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

Key Management Error

Timeline

2025-12-21:	Advisory disclosed
2025-12-21:	VulDB entry created
2025-12-21:	VulDB entry last update

Credits

hiro (VulDB User) reporter

References

vuldb.com/?id.337711 (VDB-337711 | CouchCMS reCAPTCHA config.example.php hard-coded key) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/?ctiid.337711 (VDB-337711 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/?submit.718998 (Submit #718998 | https://github.com/CouchCMS/CouchCMS ≤ 2.4 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key) third-party-advisory

note-hxlab.wetolink.com/share/jNNcrdrNyCvl related

note-hxlab.wetolink.com/share/jNNcrdrNyCvl exploit

cve.org (CVE-2025-15005)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-15005)

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