What is CVE-2025-60790?

CVE-2025-60790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Processwire, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-10-21.

How severe is CVE-2025-60790?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Processwire

CVE-2025-60790

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (33.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Processwire
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-60790?: CVE-2025-60790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Processwire, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-10-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-60790?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.