CVE-2025-9822: 
PHP vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A vulnerability in Mautic (CVE-2025-9822) was discovered that affects versions 4.4.0 through 4.4.17, 5.0.0-alpha through 5.2.8, and 6.0.0-alpha through 6.0.5. The vulnerability allows administrators to extract sensitive configuration data and secrets that should not be normally accessible. This security issue was disclosed on September 3, 2025 (Mautic Advisory).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-283 (Unverified Ownership), indicating a failure to properly verify that critical resources are owned by the appropriate entities. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability requires network access, has low attack complexity, requires high privileges, needs no user interaction, has unchanged scope, and can result in high confidentiality impact with low integrity impact (Mautic Advisory).

The primary impact of this vulnerability is the potential disclosure of sensitive configuration data, including database credentials and other secrets that administrators would not typically have access to. This could lead to unauthorized access to critical system information and potential compromise of system security (Mautic Advisory).

The vulnerability has been patched in Mautic versions 4.4.17, 5.2.8, and 6.0.5. Organizations running affected versions should upgrade to the patched versions immediately to prevent potential exploitation (Mautic Advisory).