Craft CMS possibility of brute force attempts
Date: 2022-05
Affected: composer/craftcms/cms
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Critical
CVE: CVE-2019-15929
CWE: CWE-640
CVSS: 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

In Craft CMS before 3.1.7, the elevated session password prompt was not being rate limited like normal login forms, leading to the possibility of a brute force attempt on them.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):