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CVE-2026-82531GHSA-3W63-V7PM-CQ9X

Smarty before 4.5.8 and 5.x before 5.8.5 PHP Code Injection via extends: Inheritance Cache

Published
Last modified
Status
published
Known exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.5.8, 5.8.5
Public exploit
None on Exploit-DB
CISA SSVC
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total
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Decision points from CISA's Vulnrichment, assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).

SSVC documentation

Summary

Smarty before 4.5.8 and 5.x before 5.8.5 contains a code injection vulnerability where the top-level nocache_hash is never restored during extends:/multi-component template inheritance, leaving it null. Attackers can supply assigned data containing a forged SmartyNocache marker that is copied verbatim into the regenerated PHP cache file, executing arbitrary PHP on include for remote code execution.

Affected versions

  • smarty-php smarty

    fixed in 4.5.8; From 5.0.0 · fixed in 5.8.5

References 6

GitHub · smarty-php/smarty

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