Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever PHP remains available but the configured MySQL endpoint does not. The action accepts a site name, serializes it through Site::getName(), and expands ${NAME} expressions using App::env(). An unauthenticated attacker who obtained a guest session cookie and matching CSRF token before the outage and whose session remains valid during it can submit a predictable variable name (for example Craft's conventional CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY) and receive its value, disclosing Craft secrets, process environment variables, $_SERVER entries, or PHP constants such as the security key, database credentials, or API keys. The issue requires an independently occurring database outage; the vulnerability itself provides no way to induce it. Fixed in 5.10.13.
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Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Craft CMS 5.0.0 through 5.10.12 treats a database connection failure as meaning that Craft is not installed, which makes anonymous installer actions — including install/validate-site — reachable on an installed production site whenever PHP remains available but the configured MySQL endpoint does not. The action accepts a site name, serializes it through Site::getName(), and expands ${NAME} expressions using App::env(). An unauthenticated attacker who obtained a guest session cookie and matching CSRF token before the outage and whose session remains valid during it can submit a predictable variable name (for example Craft's conventional CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY) and receive its value, disclosing Craft secrets, process environment variables, $_SERVER entries, or PHP constants such as the security key, database credentials, or API keys. The issue requires an independently occurring database outage; the vulnerability itself provides no way to induce it. Fixed in 5.10.13. | |
| Title | Craft CMS 5.0.0 before 5.10.13 Environment Secret Exposure via Installer | |
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Craftcms
Craftcms craft Cms |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-636 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:craftcms:craft_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Craftcms
Craftcms craft Cms |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-16T21:46:57.263Z
Reserved: 2026-09-16T13:47:49.170Z
Link: CVE-2026-92591
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-16T22:18:29.873
Modified: 2026-09-16T22:18:29.873
Link: CVE-2026-92591
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