Medium
Umbraco CMS Backoffice User can bypass "Publish" restriction
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Umbraco is an ASP.NET content management system (CMS). Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to versions 8.18.10, 10.7.0, and 12.3.0, Backoffice users with send for approval permission but not publish permission are able to publish in some scenarios. Versions 8.18.10, 10.7.0, and 12.3.0 contains a patch for this issue. No known workarounds are available.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-48227
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 04:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Umbraco CMS Backoffice User can bypass "Publish" restriction
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 12 Dec 2023, 17:12 UTC
Umbraco is an ASP.NET content management system (CMS). Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to versions 8.18.10, 10.7.0, and 12.3.0, Backoffice users with send for approval permission but not publish permission are able to publish in some scenarios. Versions 8.18.10, 10.7.0, and 12.3.0 contains a patch for this issue. No known workarounds are available.
osv:CVE-2023-48227
Complete source record
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