Statamic up to 5.73.x/6.20.2 Live Preview Endpoint PreviewController.php Field improper authorization

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Statamic up to 5.73.x/6.20.2. Affected is an unknown function of the file src/Http/Controllers/CP/PreviewController.php of the component Live Preview Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument Field leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-54244. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Statamic up to 5.73.x/6.20.2. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file src/Http/Controllers/CP/PreviewController.php of the component Live Preview Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument field with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Statamic is a Laravel and Git powered content management system (CMS). Prior to 5.74.0 and 6.20.3, the Live Preview endpoint for existing entries and terms in src/Http/Controllers/CP/PreviewController.php only checked view authorization, but it accepts and renders caller-supplied field values. A Control Panel user with view but not edit permission could therefore submit content they were not authorized to author and generate a shareable Live Preview URL rendering it. This issue is fixed in versions 5.74.0 and 6.20.3.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-54244 since 06/12/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:src/Http/Controllers/CP/PreviewController.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 5.74.0 or 6.20.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Statamic

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
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• 5.67
• 5.68
• 5.69
• 5.70
• 5.71
• 5.72
• 5.73
• 6.20.0
• 6.20.1
• 6.20.2

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