Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.10.13 Environment Secret Exposure via Installer
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever PHP remains available but the configured MySQL endpoint does not. The action accepts a site name, serializes it through Site::getName(), and expands ${NAME} expressions using App::env(). An unauthenticated attacker who obtained a guest session cookie and matching CSRF token before the outage and whose session remains valid during it can submit a predictable variable name (for example Craft's conventional CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY) and receive its value, disclosing Craft secrets, process environment variables, $_SERVER entries, or PHP constants such as the security key, database credentials, or API keys. The issue requires an independently occurring database outage; the vulnerability itself provides no way to induce it. Fixed in 5.10.13.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA cms (craftcms) Fixed in 5.10.13
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
craftcms cms 5.10.13
5 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 2 MEDIUM, 3 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-62448 Craft CMS before 4.18.6 Remote Code Execution via signed cookiePriority MEDIUM 41
- TI-2026-62449 Craft CMS 5.10.0 before 5.10.13 Authenticated Remote Code ExecutionPriority MEDIUM 40
- TI-2026-62445 Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.10.13 Broken Access Control via nested-elements/reorderPriority LOW 24
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-92591
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fq6c-26cc-63cr
References
More Craft CMS vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-23503 Craft CMS Allows Remote Code Execution KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2024-37138 RCE when PHP `register_argc_argv` config setting is enabled in craftcms/cms KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2025-16994 Potential RCE with a compromised security key in craft/cms KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2025-24595 Craft CMS stores user-provided content in session files KEVCVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2023-22284 Craft CMS Remote Code Execution vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2024-25171 Craft CMS up to v3.7.31 was discovered to contain a SQL injection vulnerability via the GraphQL API endpoint. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-92591 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-92591 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fq6c-26cc-63cr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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