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Excessive privileges In craftcms/cms

Description

Craft CMS Privilege Escalation

Impact

This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft with certain user permissions setups.

Patches

This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

References

https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/13932 https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/13931 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

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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