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CVE-2026-45334· NVD / CVE Program· CNA GitHub_M

Kirby: Content locks disclose IDs and emails of inaccessible users from `users.access/list` permissions

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.36% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: getkirby/cms (Packagist) 5.4.1, 4.9.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to getkirby/cms (Packagist) 5.4.1, 4.9.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Kirby is an open-source content management system. In versions prior to 4.9.1 and 5.4.1, the content-locking feature returned lock information without checking the requesting user's access permissions. Kirby's Panel includes a content-locking feature that records which user currently has a model open for editing. This lock prevents conflicting edits by multiple users and displays the locking user's identity in the Panel UI so other users know who to contact. Internally, the locking user's email address and identifier are included in every Panel view payload and in error responses returned when a user attempts to edit a model that is currently locked by another user. This allowed a low-privilege authenticated Panel user, whose role was configured with users.access: false or users.list: false, to learn the email address and identifier of any user who currently had a model open for editing in the Panel, including administrators and other higher-privilege users. Content locks are active for a configurable window (10 minutes by default). The email address can allow admin account enumeration, target phishing, and feed credential-stuffing attacks against the Kirby installation or other sites. The internal user ID can be cross-referenced with other endpoints once the requester has obtained a higher privilege through unrelated means. This issue has been fixed in versions 4.9.1 and 5.4.1.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 24, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 29th percentile

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Action score

21

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
5.3
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Versions reported by the vendor

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  • getkirby kirby

    • < 4.9.1, >= 5.0.0, < 5.4.1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Packagistgetkirby/cmsfrom 5.0.0 · before 5.4.15.4.1
Packagistgetkirby/cmsbefore 4.9.14.9.1

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-38490Kirby XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the XML data handler
    41Plan
  • CVE-2026-44177Kirby: Pre-authentication path traversal and PHP file inclusion during user lookup
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-54003Kirby: External Initialization of the Panel on reverse proxy setups with the `Forwarded` header
    36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-44175Jul 16, 2026 · Kirby: Cross-site scripting (XSS) from list field content in the site frontend
    34Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-44176Jul 16, 2026 · Kirby: `pages.access` permission is not checked during rendering of page drafts
    24Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-45368Jul 16, 2026 · Kirby: Cross-site scripting (XSS) from links in KirbyTags and image blocks in the site frontend
    33Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Packagist:getkirby/cms4.9.1Package registry (OSV)
Packagist:getkirby/cms5.4.1Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-540057 days apartKirby: `pages.access` permission is not checked in the `site/find` REST API route
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-7141546 days apartKirby: File upload permissions are not checked during processing of chunk data
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-4206968 days apartKirby: Read access to site, user and role information is not gated by permissions
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-4213768 days apartKirby: `pages.access/list` and `files.access/list` permissions are not consistently checked in the REST API and changes dialog
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-540047 days apartKirby: Access to files of top-level drafts is not protected by permissions
    25Monitor
  • CVE-2026-441760 days apartKirby: `pages.access` permission is not checked during rendering of page drafts
    24Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Attack context

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Change log

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References

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