CVE-2025-23209

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.216 · 98 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

21.6% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 8.1 · high

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

added 2025-02-20remediate by 2025-03-13

required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Craft CMS Code Injection Vulnerability

Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond. This is an remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects Craft 4 and 5 installs where your security key has already been compromised. Anyone running an unpatched version of Craft with a compromised security key is affected. This vulnerability has been patched in Craft 5.5.8 and 4.13.8. Users who cannot update to a patched version, should rotate their security keys and ensure their privacy to help migitgate the issue.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.3 · impact 6

v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USCWE-94US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

craftcms CMS4.0.0-RC1, → 4.13.8enisa_euvdEU
craftcms CMS5.0.0-RC1, → 5.5.5enisa_euvdEU
craftcms craft cms< 4.13.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
craftcms craft cms< 5.5.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
craftcms craft cms= 4.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
craftcms craft cms4.0.0 → 4.13.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
craftcms craft cms= 5.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
craftcms craft cms5.0.0 → 5.5.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Packagist craftcms/cms4.0.0-RC1 → 4.13.8osvUSpkg:composer/craftcms/cms
Packagist craftcms/cms5.0.0-RC1 → 5.5.8osvUSpkg:composer/craftcms/cms

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-x684-96hh-833xCraft CMS has a potential RCE with a compromised security key2025-01-21ghsa · osvUS
### Impact This is an RCE vulnerability that affects Craft 4 and 5 installs where your security key has already been compromised. https://craftcms.com/knowledge-base/securing-craft#keep-your-secrets-secret Anyone running an unpatched version of Craft with a compromised security key is affected. ### Patches This has been patched in Craft 5.5.8 and 4.13.8. ### Workarounds If you can't update to a patched version, then rotating your security key and ensuring its privacy will help to migitgate the issue. ### References https://github.com/craftcms/cms/commit/e59e22b30c9dd39e5e2c7fe02c147bcbd004e603

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-01-18modified 2026-06-17

references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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