Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Mautic used predictable contact tracking identifiers in 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0. A third party could impersonate tracked contacts and potentially view contact information exposed by progressive profiling forms. The public sources do not provide a CVSS score or evidence of active exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as a privacy and customer-data exposure issue. Prioritize remediation if Mautic is public-facing, stores personal data, or uses progressive profiling forms. Urgency is lower where Mautic is already 2.13.0 or later.
Technical view
The issue is an insecure tracking design: contacts were tracked by auto-incremented IDs, making tracking cookies systematically emulatable. When progressive profiling forms were enabled, the impersonated tracking context could reveal information about the associated contact. The cited record names Mautic 1.x and 2.x before 2.13.0.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely for internet-facing Mautic deployments running 1.x or 2.x before 2.13.0, especially where progressive profiling forms are enabled and show stored contact data.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show KEV listing, public exploitation, or exploit maturity. The risk depends on predictable tracking identifiers and forms that disclose contact information during progressive profiling.
Researcher notes
Public data is sparse: no CVSS, CWE, patch detail, or exploitation evidence is included. Analysis should stay scoped to Mautic 1.x/2.x before 2.13.0 and the progressive-profiling disclosure condition described in the CVE record.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade affected Mautic 1.x/2.x deployments to 2.13.0 or later.
- Review the Mautic 2.13.0 release notes and vendor guidance before rollout.
- Audit progressive profiling forms for sensitive exposed contact fields.
- Reduce or remove sensitive fields from profiling forms where possible.
- Monitor Mautic contact activity for unusual tracking or profile-access patterns.
Validation and detection
- Inventory all Mautic instances and record exact versions.
- Confirm no production instance runs Mautic before 2.13.0.
- Identify forms using progressive profiling.
- Review whether those forms expose personal or sensitive contact fields.
- Check access logs for unusual automated form interaction patterns.
Public sources used
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No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/2.13.0CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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