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CVE-2026-80203: Grav before 1.0.18 Authentication Bypass via Scoped API Key

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 37/100)

  • 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: 0.51% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: getgrav grav 1.0.18.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to getgrav grav 1.0.18 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

The getgrav/grav-plugin-api plugin before 1.0.18 does not enforce API-key scope in the requireNotSuperTarget() function in UsersController.php across seven sensitive user-management endpoints. The check uses isSuperAdmin() on the acting account rather than verifying whether the specific API key carries super authority (via isSuperWithinScope()). As a result, an API key scoped below full super authority but belonging to a super-admin account can act against other super-admin accounts—disabling their 2FA, deleting their avatar, minting new API keys under their identity, or deleting their existing API keys.

CriticalCVSS 9.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 26, 2026
Updated
Sep 3, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 42th percentile

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Action score

37

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · VulnCheck
9.3
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • getgrav grav

    • 1.0.18not affected
    • before 1.0.18affected · semver

Same product

getgrav: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2025-50286A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Grav CMS v1.7.48 allows an authenticated admin to upload a malicious plugin via the /admin/to
    60This week
  • CVE-2024-27921Grav File Upload Path Traversal vulnerability
    53Plan
  • CVE-2025-66301Grav ihas Broken Access Control which allows an Editor to modify the page's YAML Frontmatter to alter form processing actions
    40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-76839Aug 25, 2026 · Grav before 2.0.16 Information Disclosure via offsetGet
    34Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-76846Aug 25, 2026 · Grav before 2.0.16 Information Disclosure via Twig Sandbox
    34Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-80204Aug 26, 2026 · Grav before 1.0.18 Authentication Bypass via Scoped API Key
    37Monitor

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
getgrav grav1.0.18Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

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

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

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

  • CVE-2026-802040 days apartGrav before 1.0.18 Authentication Bypass via Scoped API Key
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-567101 days apartGrav Login Plugin before 1.0.16 Privilege Escalation via Unlock
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-7283112 days apartGrav through 2.0.11 Authentication Bypass via Flex Objects
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-6223140 days apartGrav < 1.0.6 API Key Scope Bypass via ApiKeyAuthenticator
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-42610107 days apartGrav: Sensitive Information Disclosure via Accounts Service Bypass
    26Monitor

Chain candidates

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

  • CVE-2026-755741 days apartGrav before 4.2.2 Remote Code Execution via Email Twig
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-648507 days apartGrav: Remote code execution via unrestricted callable in Blueprint::dynamicData()
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-726951 days apartGrav before 2.0.16 Path Traversal via MediaUploadTrait deleteFile
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-726971 days apartGrav CMS before 2.0.16 Path Traversal via media_directory
    28Monitor

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.
  • No account or password is required.
  • 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
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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