Security advisory
Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important files. This vulnerability exists in the implementation of the GrapesJS builder in Mautic.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-27916
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important files. This vulnerability exists in the implementation of the GrapesJS builder in Mautic.
osv:CVE-2021-27916
Complete source record
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