๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ CVE-2026-27198
๐ŸŸ  CVSS 8.8 โ€” High โœ… No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Formwork is a flat file-based Content Management System (CMS). In versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.3, the application fails to properly enforce role-based authorization during account creation. Although the system validates that the specified role exists, it does not verify whether the current user has sufficient privileges to assign highly privileged roles such as admin. As a result, an authenticated user with the editor role can create a new account with administrative privileges, leading to full administrative access and complete compromise of the CMS. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.4.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit โœ… No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-21
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
formwork 2.0.0 2.3.4
getformwork/formwork 2.0.0 2.3.4

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