Vulnerability in Craftcms Cms
CVE-2026-115938
Craft CMS allows any authenticated control panel user to submit an element-search condition whose element selector is evaluated as a sandboxed Twig object template. Craft’s allowed column filter delegates property lookup to Yii ArrayHelper, outside Twig’s SecurityPolicy. Repeated single-segment lookups therefore bypass the sandbox’s empty property/method allowlists. The vulnerable condition value is ultimately cast to an integer. That does not protect the secret: the template can return author ID 1 when a guessed key character is correct and an impossible ID otherwise. The JSON endpoint returns entries for the first case and an empty array for the second, forming a stable remote character oracle. After recovering GeneralConfig::securityKey, the same user can compute Craft’s generic HMAC wire format offline. Signed parameters such as redirect are then accepted and passed to unsandboxed View::renderObjectTemplate(), where Twig’s string-callable form can invoke native PHP callables. The regression proof uses the harmless substr() callback and observes abcdef becoming cdef; it does not execute an OS command.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- 7004884b-51e2-48e8-b4a2-5ca29e80453e (technical-description, mitigation, third-party-advisory)
- 7004884b-51e2-48e8-b4a2-5ca29e80453e (release-notes)
- 7004884b-51e2-48e8-b4a2-5ca29e80453e (product)
- 7004884b-51e2-48e8-b4a2-5ca29e80453e (third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-115938?
- CVE-2026-115938 is a high-severity vulnerability in Craftcms Cms, classified under Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2026-10-23.
- How severe is CVE-2026-115938?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.