CVE-2026-92591 PUBLISHED

Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.10.13 Environment Secret Exposure via Installer

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 16.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever PHP remains available but the configured MySQL endpoint does not. The action accepts a site name, serializes it through Site::getName(), and expands ${NAME} expressions using App::env(). An unauthenticated attacker who obtained a guest session cookie and matching CSRF token before the outage and whose session remains valid during it can submit a predictable variable name (for example Craft's conventional CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY) and receive its value, disclosing Craft secrets, process environment variables, $_SERVER entries, or PHP constants such as the security key, database credentials, or API keys. The issue requires an independently occurring database outage; the vulnerability itself provides no way to induce it. Fixed in 5.10.13.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor craftcms
Product cms
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5.0.0 to 5.10.13 (excl.)
  • Version 5.10.13 is unaffected

Credits

  • Crypto-Cat reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open') CWE