# CVE-2026-41657: Admidio: Cross-Organization Member Data Exposure via Permission Check Mismatch in contacts\_data.php

- Also known as: GHSA-G8P8-94F2-28GR
- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.0.9
- Published: 2026-05-07 · Updated: 2026-05-07

## Affected

- admidio: fixed in 5.0.9
- admidio/admidio (Packagist): fixed in 5.0.9

## Description

Admidio is an open-source user management solution. Prior to version 5.0.9, the contacts_data.php endpoint uses a weaker permission check (isAdministratorUsers(), requiring only rol_edit_user=true) than the frontend UI (contacts.php) which correctly requires the stronger isAdministrator() (requiring rol_administrator=true) and the contacts_show_all system setting. A user manager who is not a full administrator can directly request contacts_data.php?mem_show_filter=3 to retrieve all user records across all organizations in the Admidio instance, bypassing multi-tenant organization isolation. This issue has been patched in version 5.0.9.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on admidio, admidio/admidio, upgrade to a fixed version (5.0.9) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Admidio/admidio/security/advisories/GHSA-g8p8-94f2-28gr
- https://github.com/Admidio/admidio/releases/tag/v5.0.9

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