Low privilege condition filter escapes Twig sandbox, recovers "securityKey" and reaches RCE
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.
CVE-2026-115938
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-115938
cms
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "craftcms",
"product": "cms",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "5.0.0",
"lessThan": "5.11.2",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "4.0.0",
"lessThan": "4.18.9",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"packageName": "craftcms/cms",
"collectionURL": "https://packagist.org",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-115938
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #53323 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date