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CVE-2026-115938GHSA-V4Q3-2G5G-WJJ6

Low privilege condition filter escapes Twig sandbox, recovers "securityKey" and reaches RCE

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.11.2, 4.18.9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Craft CMS, the PHP content management system, is affected. An authenticated control panel user with low privileges can escape the Twig sandbox, recover the application's security key, and forge signed requests that run unsandboxed template code, which could lead to remote code execution on the server.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • craftcms/cms

    From 5.0.0 · fixed in 5.11.2; From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.18.9

References 4

hckrt.com

GitHub · craftcms/cms