Description
Umbraco is an ASP.NET CMS. From 15.3.1 to before 16.5.1 and 17.2.2, A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in Umbraco CMS. Under certain conditions, authenticated backoffice users with permission to manage users, may be able to elevate their privileges due to insufficient authorization enforcement when modifying user group memberships. The affected functionality does not properly validate whether a user has sufficient privileges to assign highly privileged roles. This vulnerability is fixed in 16.5.1 and 17.2.2.
Scores
CVSS v3
7.2
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
16.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-284
CWE-862
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (4)
nuget/Umbraco.Cms
15.3.1 - 16.5.1NuGet
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
>= 15.3.1, < 16.5.1
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
>= 17.0.0, < 17.2.1
umbraco/umbraco_cms
15.3.1 - 16.5.1
Published
Mar 10, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 11, 2026