GHSA-8cw6-53m5-4932
StudioCMS has Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
StudioCMS contains a Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) vulnerability in the Content Management feature that allows users with the "Visitor" role to access draft content created by Editor/Admin/Owner users.
### Details
**The Issue:**
The endpoint `/dashboard/content-management/edit?edit={UUID}` validates user authentication but does NOT validate:
1. User role (should require Editor/Admin/Owner)
2. Content ownership (should verify the draft belongs to the user)
This allows users with "Visitor" role (lowest privilege) to access draft content created by Editor/Admin/Owner users by directly accessing the edit URL with the content UUID.
### PoC
- **User A:** Editor role (example username: `dummy04`)
- **User B:** Visitor role (example username: `dummy01`)
**Reproduction Steps:**
**Step 1 - Create draft as Editor:**
1. Login as User A (Editor role)
2. Navigate to: `http://localhost:4321/dashboard/content-management`
3. Create new content (it will stay as draft)
4. After saving, note the UUID in the URL:
````
http://localhost:4321/dashboard/content-management/edit?edit=bad87630-69a4-4cd6-bcb2-6965839dc148
````
Copy this UUID: `bad87630-69a4-4cd6-bcb2-6965839dc148`
**Step 2 - Access draft as Visitor:**
1. Login as Visitor and get auth_session cookie
```
curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:4321/studiocms_api/auth/login" -F 'username=dummy01' -F 'password=dummy01pass$'
```
<img width="1128" height="376" alt="01" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/86c5290e-e7a2-470e-bbf5-5f5247eddec1" />
2. Proof of Visitor permission
<img width="1899" height="450" alt="02" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aabd47d3-163f-4a56-8296-08bd40c5ccdc" />
3. Access Editor's draft using the UUID
```
curl "http://127.0.0.1:4321/dashboard/content-management/edit?edit=bad87630-69a4-4cd6-bcb2-6965839dc148" -H "Cookie: auth_session=qvawh6zv23hc2spu6xx7pzgrnn4rpd3q" -v
```
**Result:** Returns full HTML page with draft content (200 OK)
### Impact
**Impact Scenarios:**
1. **Information Disclosure:**
- Visitor users can read unpublished drafts containing sensitive information
- Drafts may contain confidential business information, unreleased announcements, or proprietary content
- Competitive intelligence could be gathered from draft content
2. **Privacy Violation:**
- Personal notes, work-in-progress content, or internal communications in drafts exposed
- Violation of content creator privacy expectations
3. **Business Impact:**
- Premature disclosure of marketing campaigns, product launches, or announcements
- Loss of competitive advantage if draft strategies are exposed
- Potential compliance issues if drafts contain regulated information
4. **Complete RBAC Bypass:**
- The entire role-based access control system for draft content is bypassed
- "Visitor" role becomes equivalent to "Editor" for read access to drafts
- Undermines the trust model of multi-user content management
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/withstudiocms/studiocms/security/advisories/GHSA-8cw6-53m5-4932
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24134
- https://github.com/withstudiocms/studiocms/commit/efc10bee20db090fdd75463622c30dda390c50ad
- https://github.com/withstudiocms/studiocms
- https://github.com/withstudiocms/studiocms/releases/tag/studiocms%400.2.0