CVE-2026-105849

— UNSCOREDpublic exploit available

Published 2026-10-06 · Updated 2026-10-06

AI analysis for this CVE has not been generated yet. Raw NVD data is shown below.

NVD description

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions from 3.0.0 before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, users with ordinary read access to other authentication documents in a collection with useAPIKey enabled can obtain active API keys and exercise the target accounts' permissions until those keys are rotated or disabled. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Weaknesses

CWE-201, CWE-862

Public exploit & PoC references

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/880d2e900be22cd66a9e939f2b3e702fa413180f
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-238x-w2j9-gwwr

All references

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/880d2e900be22cd66a9e939f2b3e702fa413180f
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-238x-w2j9-gwwr

Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.

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