CVE-2026-57518

HIGH

Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 Privilege Escalation via UserApiController

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated users with the 'user: manage users' permission to escalate privileges by assigning arbitrary custom roles to themselves due to missing authorization checks in UserApiController::saveAction(). Attackers can assign themselves a custom role with the 'system: manage packages' permission and then upload and install a malicious PHP package through the admin package installer to achieve remote code execution.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit technical-description exploit
Researcher Disclosure
https://gist.github.com/sermikr0/6f0a67e9d101746fcdb04827de137847

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0048
EPSS Percentile 38.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (1)
pagekit/pagekit < 1.0.18
Published Jun 26, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 26, 2026