CVE-2026-31834

HIGH

Umbraco 15.3.1-16.5.0/17.2.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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