CVE-2026-92591

Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.10.13 Environment Secret Exposure via Installer

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS Score
Published: September 16, 2026 at 09:46 PM UTC
Updated: September 22, 2026 at 08:41 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCraftcms

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Severity
MEDIUM5.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.0.0 ≤ v < 5.10.135.0.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.13 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

5.9MEDIUMVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-636

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