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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.7 High

CVE-2026-57518

Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 Privilege Escalation via UserApiController

Description

Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated users with the 'user: manage users' permission to escalate privileges by assigning arbitrary custom roles to themselves due to missing authorization checks in UserApiController::saveAction(). Attackers can assign themselves a custom role with the 'system: manage packages' permission and then upload and install a malicious PHP package through the admin package installer to achieve remote code execution.

Affected products

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

pagekit pagekit

Default version status: affected

  • 0 to ≤ 1.0.18affected
pkg:github/pagekit/pagekit

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