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CVE-2024-56145 enables unauthenticated remote code execution in Craft CMS when PHP's register_argc_argv setting is enabled. Craft CMS bootstrap code accepted CLI-style options from the web-populated $_SERVER['argv'] array, allowing query-string input to override application paths, including the templates directory. The affected condition was present in Craft CMS's official Docker configuration.
An attacker can redirect template resolution to an attacker-controlled FTP server and leverage PHP's FTP stream wrapper to satisfy file-existence checks before Craft CMS downloads and renders a malicious Twig template. Although Twig blocked several direct dangerous callbacks, the published technique bypassed those restrictions through call_user_func used by the sort filter. Craft CMS fixed the flaw in versions 5.5.2 and 4.13.2 and later; organizations unable to upgrade should disable register_argc_argv and review exposed Craft deployments for suspicious template-path overrides.
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HITCON CTF 2018 featured the One Line PHP Challenge, which used PHP session upload-progress handling, a race condition, stream-filter Base64 decoding, and a local file inclusion primitive to achieve code execution. Three of 1,816 teams solved the challenge.
Craft CMS fixed the unauthenticated RCE issue caused by processing web-populated $_SERVER['argv'] values as CLI options. Versions 5.5.2+ and 4.13.2+ are protected; installations unable to upgrade can mitigate the issue by disabling register_argc_argv.
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Craft CMS disclosed and patched two **critical** vulnerabilities, `CVE-2025-32432` and `CVE-2024-58136`, that can be chained or abused to achieve **unauthenticated remote code execution** and full compromise of vulnerable servers. The flaws affect Craft CMS `5.x` before `5.6.17`, `4.x` before `4.14.15`, and `3.x` before `3.9.15`; one issue involves insufficient input validation in image transformation functionality, while the other stems from unsafe handling of the `__class` variable in the underlying Yii 2 framework. Researchers and national defenders reported that the vulnerabilities are being **actively exploited in the wild**, with investigations tying attacks to malicious requests targeting the `actions/assets/generate-transform` endpoint and abuse of `__class` parameters. Organizations running exposed Craft CMS instances were urged to patch immediately, review logs for suspicious POST activity, check file and system integrity, and rotate credentials if compromise is suspected.
Aug 15, 2026
Craft CMS disclosed six vulnerabilities affecting **4.x** and **5.x** releases, including a **critical** remote code execution flaw tracked as `CVE-2026-72781`. The most severe issue affects versions **5.0.0-RC1 through before 5.10.7** and **4.0.0-RC1 through before 4.18.3**, where an authenticated user with control panel access can render a malicious Twig template and execute arbitrary code even when the Twig sandbox is enabled. The flaw stems from Craft marking `ElementInterface` as safe and extending sandbox allowlisting through the class hierarchy to `yii\base\Component`, creating an arbitrary function-call gadget.
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