CVE-2026-25497
February 09, 2026
Craft is a platform for creating digital experiences. In Craft versions from 4.0.0-RC1 to before 4.17.0-beta.1 and 5.9.0-beta.1, there is a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Craft CMS’s GraphQL API that allows an authenticated user with write access to one asset volume to escalate their privileges and modify/transfer assets belonging to any other volume, including restricted or private volumes to which they should not have access. The saveAsset GraphQL mutation validates authorization against the schema-resolved volume but fetches the target asset by ID without verifying that the asset belongs to the authorized volume. This allows unauthorized cross-volume asset modification and transfer. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.17.0-beta.1 and 5.9.0-beta.1.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/craftcms/cms.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=4.0.0 <4.16.18Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.16.18https://github.com/craftcms/cms.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=5.0.0 <5.8.22Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 5.8.22craftcms/cms (PHP):
Affected version(s) >=5.0.0-RC1 <5.9.0-beta.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 5.9.0-beta.1craftcms/cms (PHP):
Affected version(s) >=4.0.0-RC1 <4.17.0-beta.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.17.0-beta.1Related Resources (7)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
EPSS
Base Score:
0.01