Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting getgrav/grav package, versions <1.8.0-beta.27


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-GETGRAVGRAV-14157165
  • published2 Dec 2025
  • disclosed1 Dec 2025
  • creditNijat Alizada

Introduced: 1 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2025-66296  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade getgrav/grav to version 1.8.0-beta.27 or higher.

Overview

getgrav/grav is a Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment due to the absence of username uniqueness validation when creating users. An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative access by creating a new account with the same username as an existing administrator and setting a new password or email.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1