CVE-2025-27822 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Masquerade module before 1.x-1.0.1 for Backdrop CMS. It allows people to temporarily switch to another user account. The module provides a \Masquerade as admin\ permission to restrict people (who can masquerade) from switching to an account with administrative privileges. This permission is not always honored and may allow non-administrative users to masquerade as an administrator. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the \Masquerade as user\ permission.

Reference

https://backdropcms.org/security/backdrop-sa-contrib-2025-006