Grav before 2.0.14 Privilege Escalation via Group Access Field
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation, Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-269 and CWE-862.
Summary
Grav before 2.0.14 fails to guard the access field in the core group blueprint with the required security@: admin.super restriction. A delegated admin.users operator can save a group with access[admin][super]=true to escalate to super-admin, gaining scheduler and Twig evaluation capabilities.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| getgrav | grav | before 2.0.14 | 2.0.14 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | getgrav/grav (Packagist) | before 2.0.14 | 2.0.14 | Patch available | GHSA-xhfv-7758-r9hx |
- grav Vendorgetgrav Affected before 2.0.14 Fixed in 2.0.14 Patch available CNA
- getgrav/grav (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 2.0.14 Fixed in 2.0.14 Patch available GHSA-xhfv-7758-r9hx
Remediation
- Fix · CNA grav (getgrav) Fixed in 2.0.14
- Fix · GHSA-xhfv-7758-r9hx getgrav/grav (Packagist) Fixed in 2.0.14 Advisory →
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
getgrav grav 2.0.14
2 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 1 HIGH, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-53080 Grav before 2.0.14 Stored XSS via Invalid UTF-8 BytePriority LOW 23
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-75837
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xhfv-7758-r9hx
References
More getgrav vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-30893 Grav: Privilege Escalation via Missing Server-Side Validation of groups/access CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2025-28971 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in grav v.1.7.48 and before allows an attacker to… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-04523 Unauthenticated Arbitrary YAML Write/Update leads to Code Execution CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-50940 Grav CMS before 2.0.16 Origin Validation Bypass via Referer CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-46446 Grav before 2.0.7 Remote Code Execution via Blueprint dynamicData CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2021-22428 GravCMS 1.10.7 - Arbitrary YAML Write/Update (Unauthenticated) (2) CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-75837 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-75837 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xhfv-7758-r9hx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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