Craft CMS up to 5.11.1 Criteria getOwners privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Craft CMS up to 5.11.1. The affected element is the function getOwners of the component Criteria Handler. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-123490. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Craft CMS up to 5.11.1. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function getOwners of the component Criteria Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Craft CMS from 5.8.17 before 5.11.2 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability because getOwners() applies caller criteria without cleansing the query configuration. Authenticated control panel users can invoke attacker-selected static PHP callables via crafted criteria to promote every account to administrator.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-123490 since 11/06/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 5.11.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Craft CMS 5.11.2

Timelineinfo

11/06/2026 Advisory disclosed
11/06/2026 +0 days CVE reserved
11/06/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/06/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CNA: VulnCheck
CVE: CVE-2026-123490 (🔒)

GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-123490
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-431943

Entryinfo

Created: 11/06/2026 16:28
Changes: 11/06/2026 16:28 (77)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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