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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.6 High

CVE-2026-50279

Craft CMS: Authorship spoofing in `entries/save-entry` via pre-check/post-mutation authorization gap

Description

Craft CMS is a content management system (CMS). IN versions 5.0.0-RC1 and above prior to 5.9.21, theEntriesController::actionSaveEntry() performs entry-edit permission checks before request-controlled author changes are applied to the model, allowing for authorship spoofing. The subsequent author mutation path accepts attacker-supplied authors / author parameters and allows the change when the current user is one of the old authors. Because the controller does not re-run authorization after mutating the author list, a low-privileged user can reassign an entry’s authorship to another user without holding the dedicated peer-author-change permission. This issue has been fixed in version 5.9.21.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

craftcms cms

  • >= 5.0.0-RC1, < 5.9.21affected

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