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Craft CMS Privilege Escalation

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-21622
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 03:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Craft CMS Privilege Escalation

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Jan 2024, 16:51 UTC

Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

osv:CVE-2024-21622
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Craft CMS Privilege Escalation",
    "summary": "Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.",
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/21xxx/CVE-2024-21622.json",
        "https://github.com/craftcms/cms/security/advisories/GHSA-j5g9-j7r4-6qvx",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21622",
        "https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/76caf9af07d9964be0fd362772223be6a5f5b6aa",
        "https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/be81eb653d633833f2ab22510794abb6bb9c0843",
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