CVE-2026-72778 PUBLISHED

Craft CMS 5.0.0-RC1 before 5.10.6 Authenticated RCE via condition.config

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

Craft CMS versions from 4.0.0-RC1 before 4.18.2 and from 5.0.0-RC1 before 5.10.6 contain an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the control panel element-search condition handling. Craft cleanses the outer request-controlled condition array via Component::cleanseConfig(), but Conditions::createCondition() later decodes and merges the JSON string in condition.config without re-running cleanseConfig() on the decoded configuration. Because condition.config is a JSON string during the first cleanse, Yii special config keys such as 'as ...' and 'on ...' can be hidden inside it and, after JSON decoding, are interpreted by Yii as behavior/event configuration during FieldLayout object creation. An attacker with an authenticated control panel session (and a valid CSRF token) can exploit this to execute operating system commands as the PHP/web user.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor craftcms
Product cms
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5.0.0-RC1 to 5.10.6 (excl.)
  • Version 5.10.6 is unaffected
Vendor craftcms
Product cms
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.0.0-RC1 to 4.18.2 (excl.)
  • Version 4.18.2 is unaffected

Credits

  • saladin0x1 analyst

References

Problem Types

  • Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes CWE