🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-115935

HIGH 8.8

Control panel only API response emulation replaces "securityKey" and reaches server RCE

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The app/process-api-response-headers action accepts fake Craft API response headers from any authenticated control panel user. A non-admin user with only accessCp can place newline characters in X-Craft-Plugin-Licenses. Craft passes this value to its .env writer without removing the newlines. This lets the user insert a new attacker-known CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY into .env. After Craft loads that key, the user can forge a signed login redirect containing a Twig system() callback. This is different from the previous report. That report reads the existing key through a Twig sandbox bypass. This report replaces the key through fake API headers and CRLF injection. Fixing either source does not fix the other.

CWE CWE-94
Vendor craftcms
Product cms
Published Oct 23, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

craftcms / cms
5.0.0 < 5.11.2 4.0.0 < 4.18.9

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
hckrt.com: https://www.hckrt.com/hacktivity/HCKRT-WM3VSE github.com: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/releases/tag/5.11.2 github.com: https://github.com/craftcms/cms github.com: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/security/advisories/GHSA-9hp6-3565-gvh5

Credits

🔍 Mohamed Wagdy (@Kalawy) Hackrate