CVE-2026-123490
Received Received - Intake

Privilege Escalation in Craft CMS via Crafted Criteria

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-123490, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-11-06

Last updated on: 2026-11-06

Assigner: VulnCheck

Description

Craft CMS from 5.8.17 before 5.11.2 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability because getOwners() applies caller criteria without cleansing the query configuration. Authenticated control panel users can invoke attacker-selected static PHP callables via crafted criteria to promote every account to administrator.

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Published
2026-11-06
Last Modified
2026-11-06
Generated
2026-11-06
EPSS Evaluated
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craft_cms craft_cms to 5.11.2 (exc)

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CWE-915 The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies multiple attributes, properties, or fields that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control which attributes can be modified.

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