CVE-2025-54127

Description

### Summary The NodeJS version of HAX CMS uses an insecure default configuration designed for local development. The default configuration does not perform authorization or authentication checks. ### Details If a user were to deploy haxcms-nodejs without modifying the default settings, ‘HAXCMS_DISABLE_JWT_CHECKS‘ would be set to ‘true‘ and their deployment would lack session authentication.  #### Affected Resources - [package.json:13](https://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs/blob/a4d2f18341ff63ad2d97c35f9fc21af8b965248b/package.json#L13) ### PoC To reproduce this vulnerability, [install](https://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs) HAX CMS NodeJS. The application will load without JWT checks enabled. ### Impact Without security checks in place, an unauthenticated remote attacker could access, modify, and delete all site information.

Affected packages (1)

• npm/@haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejsfrom 0, < 11.0.7

CVSS scores

References (3)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54127
• PATCHhttps://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs
• WEBhttps://github.com/haxtheweb/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-f38f-jvqj-mfg6