🛡️ CVE-2026-55590 — cakephp

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-601 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
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Description

CakePHP Authentication: Open redirect weakness via backslash bypass

Impact

The getLoginRedirect() method contains a weakness to backslash bypasses allowing redirect targets with attacker controlled hostnames.

Patches

3.3.6 and 4.1.1 contain a fix for this issue.

Workarounds

If you are unable to upgrade, you should consider adding application validation to the redirect query string parameter to mitigate this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-55590 is classified as CWE-601: Open Redirect. A redirect target is taken from user input, so a trusted link can send the visitor to an attacker's site.

Affected software

CVE-2026-55590 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • cakephp (from 4.0.0 up to 4.1.1)
  • cakephp/authentication (from 4.0.0 up to 4.1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2026 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-601
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-13

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cakephp 4.0.0 4.1.1
cakephp/authentication 4.0.0 4.1.1

References

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