CVE-2026-27198HIGH 8.8EPSS p33.1%
CVE-2026-27198CVE-2026-27198
Description
Formwork is a flat file-based Content Management System (CMS). In versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.3, the application fails to properly enforce role-based authorization during account creation. Although the system validates that the specified role exists, it does not verify whether the current user has sufficient privileges to assign highly privileged roles such as admin. As a result, an authenticated user with the editor role can create a new account with administrative privileges, leading to full administrative access and complete compromise of the CMS. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.4.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.8 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.41% probability of exploitation · percentile 33.1% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2026-02-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-03-03 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Privilege Managementcwe-269 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.