CVE-2026-45332

high

Published 2026-05-27 · Modified 2026-05-28

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Automad is a flat-file content management system and template engine. From 2.0.0-alpha.1 to 2.0.0-beta.27, a Broken Access Control vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to retrieve the bcrypt password hash of every administrator account with a single POST request. The /_api/user-collection/create-first-user setup endpoint remains publicly accessible once initial configuration is complete and returns full serialized user data in the JSON response body. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.0-beta.28.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
COMPOSER	automad/automad	`>= 2.0.0-alpha.1, <= 2.0.0-beta.27`	`2.0.0-beta.28`
Packagist	automad/automad	`>=2.0.0-alpha.1,<=2.0.0-beta.27`
Packagist	automad/automad	`>=2.0.0-alpha.1,<2.0.0-beta.28`	`2.0.0-beta.28`

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-306

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.