CVE-2025-55737 – “FlaskBlog Comment Deletion Privilege Escalation Vulnerability”

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CVE-2025-55737 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description flaskBlog is a blog app built with Flask. In 2.8.0 and earlier, when deleting a comment, there’s no validation of the ownership of the comment. Every user can delete an arbitrary comment of another user on every post, by simply intercepting the delete request and changing the commentID. The code that causes the problem is in routes/post.py.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-639
    Added Reference https://github.com/DogukanUrker/FlaskBlog/security/advisories/GHSA-6hp9-jv2f-88wr
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