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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-64526

Strapi is an open source headless content management system.

Published May 14, 2026 · catalog updated Oct 14, 2026 · Strapi is an open

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-64526. EPSS is 0.49%. Act only if a listed version of Strapi is an open is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (Strapi is an open).
  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Medium6.9
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.49%
Remediation
Advisory link
Affected products
cpe strapi/strapi

Strapi is an open source headless content management system. In Strapi versions prior to 5.45.0, the rate-limit middleware in the users-permissions plugin derived its rate-limit key in part from , including on routes whose body schema does not contain an field ( , , ). An unauthenticated attacker could include an arbitrary value in the request body to obtain a fresh rate-limit key per request, effectively bypassing per-IP throttling on those routes and enabling high-volume credential brute-force, password-reset code brute-force, and credential-stuffing attempts. The rate-limit key was constructed as , where . On routes that legitimately use email as their identifier (e.g. , ), this scoping is correct. On routes that use a different identifier ( for login, for password reset, for password change), the email field was not part of the route contract, but the middleware still incorporated it into the key, allowing a caller to rotate the value and obtain a unique key on every request. The patch in version 5.45.0 maintains an allow-list of routes that legitimately key on the email field and excludes that key component on every other route the middleware is mounted on. OAuth callback paths ( ) are treated identifier-less. On routes outside the allow-list, the middleware now falls back to a fixed identifier-less key, ensuring per-IP throttling remains effective even when the request body is attacker-controlled.

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  • cpe strapi/strapiversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2025-64526

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-64526. EPSS is 0.49%. Act only if a listed version of Strapi is an open is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. EPSS 0.49%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

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Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 14, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    Strapi is an open source headless content management system. In Strapi versions prior to 5.45.0, the rate-limit middleware in the users-permissions plugin derived its rate-limit key in part from , including on routes whose body schema does not contain an field ( , , ). An unauthenticated attacker could include an arbitrary value in the request body to obtain a fresh rate-limit key per request, eff

  2. Oct 14, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    Strapi is an open source headless content management system. In Strapi versions prior to 5.45.0, the rate-limit middleware in the users-permissions plugin derived its rate-limit key in part from , including on routes whose body schema does not contain an field ( , , ). An unauthenticated attacker could include an arbitrary value in the request body to obtain a fresh rate-limit key per request, eff

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-64526

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-64526

    30-day exploitation probability 0.5%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2025-64526

    Strapi is an open source headless content management system. In Strapi versions prior to 5.45.0, the rate-limit middleware in the users-permissions plugin derived its rate-limit key in part from , including on routes whose body schema does not contain an `

    nvd.nist.gov

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.