CVE-2023-34253

high

Description

Grav is a flat-file content management system. Prior to version 1.7.42, the denylist introduced in commit 9d6a2d to prevent dangerous functions from being executed via injection of malicious templates was insufficient and could be easily subverted in multiple ways -- (1) using unsafe functions that are not banned, (2) using capitalised callable names, and (3) using fully-qualified names for referencing callables. Consequently, a low privileged attacker with login access to Grav Admin panel and page creation/update permissions is able to inject malicious templates to obtain remote code execution. A patch in version 1.7.42 improves the denylist.

References

https://www.github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/9d6a2dba09fd4e56f5cdfb9a399caea355bfeb83

https://huntr.dev/bounties/3ef640e6-9e25-4ecb-8ec1-64311d63fe66/

https://github.com/getgrav/grav/security/advisories/GHSA-j3v8-v77f-fvgm

https://github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/71bbed12f950de8335006d7f91112263d8504f1b

https://github.com/getgrav/grav/blob/1.7.40/system/src/Grav/Common/Utils.php#L1952-L2190

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-14

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04108