Medium
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
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-21622
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 03:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.847859653Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#4511---2023-11-16",
"https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/v3/CHANGELOG.md#396---2023-11-16",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/21xxx/CVE-2024-21622.json",
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21622",
"https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/76caf9af07d9964be0fd362772223be6a5f5b6aa",
"https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/be81eb653d633833f2ab22510794abb6bb9c0843",
"https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/13931",
"https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/13932"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 500138,
"published_at": "2024-01-03T16:51:25.704+00:00"
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