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Status published
Medium
CVE-2023-48227
Umbraco CMS Backoffice User can bypass "Publish" restriction
Vulnerability Description
Umbraco is an ASP.NET content management system (CMS). Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to versions 8.18.10, 10.7.0, and 12.3.0, Backoffice users with send for approval permission but not publish permission are able to publish in some scenarios. Versions 8.18.10, 10.7.0, and 12.3.0 contains a patch for this issue. No known workarounds are available.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Vulnerable Versions:
>= 8.0.0, < 8.18.10, >= 9.0.0-rc001, < 10.7.0, >= 11.0.0-rc1, < 12.3.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 12th, 2023
Last Modified:
August 28th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N