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PGV-258003U - DNN Insufficient Access Control - Image Upload allows for Site Content Overwrite

Disclosed on October 29, 2025 (updated October 30, 2025)

Does Not Meet Category 5 Requirements

This vulnerability affects a package that is primarily operated as a standalone application, service, CLI tool, or workflow system rather than integrated as a library or dependency within application runtime logic. While exploitation may have severe impact in deployments where that standalone package is exposed or attacker-accessible, it does not create a broadly applicable compromise path for consuming applications.

Vulnerability Overview

PGV-258003U is a category 4 vulnerabilty that affects DNN.PLATFORM, versions < 10.1.1

Risk Assessment

The risk assessment shows that this vulnerability is exlpoited by a external attacker. An unauthorized external actor who attempts to exploit this vulnerability without legitimate access.

The impact is an environmental compromise. Exploitation can escape the application boundary and impact the host environment, infrastructure, or other services.

The threat damage is caused by a denial of service. Exploitation can completely deny access to the application, resulting in a full outage.is caused by a data breach. Exploitation can result in full access to data within the system.is caused by data tampering. Exploitation can result in modification of any data (authorized or not) within the system.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

The default HTML editor provider allows unauthenticated file uploads and images can overwrite existing files.

Description

An unauthenticated user can upload and replace existing files allowing defacing a website and combined with other issue, injection XSS payloads.

Common Weakness Enumerations

  • CWE-434 - Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Your Risk Profile
Network Exposure
External
Accessable from the public internet
Access Interface
WebBrowser
Primarily web-based applications
Service Outage
Disruptive
Operations would be impacted
Data Breach
Disruptive
Operations would be impacted
Data Tampering
Disruptive
Operations would be impacted
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Additional Identifiers
  • CVE-2025-64095
  • GHSA-3m8r-w7xg-jqvw