Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond. This is an remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects Craft 4 and 5 installs where your security key has already been compromised. Anyone running an unpatched version of Craft with a compromised security key is affected. This vulnerability has been patched in Craft 5.5.8 and 4.13.8. Users who cannot update to a patched version, should rotate their security keys and ensure their privacy to help migitgate the issue.

The version of Craft CMS installed on the remote host is 4.x prior to 4.13.8 or 5.x prior to 5.5.8. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability:

  - A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affects Craft 4 and 5 installs where your security   key has already been compromised. Anyone running an unpatched version of Craft with a compromised security   key is affected. This vulnerability has been patched in Craft 5.5.8 and 4.13.8. Users who cannot update to a   patched version, should rotate their security keys and ensure their privacy to help migitgate the issue.
  (CVE-2025-23209)  

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond. This
    is an remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects Craft 4 and 5 installs where your security
    key has already been compromised. Anyone running an unpatched version of Craft with a compromised security
    key is affected. This vulnerability has been patched in Craft 5.5.8 and 4.13.8. Users who cannot update to
    a patched version, should rotate their security keys and ensure their privacy to help migitgate the issue.
    (CVE-2025-23209)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256693	Craft CMS 4.x < 4.13.8 / 5.x < 5.5.8 RCE (GHSA-x684-96hh-833x)	Nessus	Misc.	high
420329	SCA: security update for craftcms/cms (GHSA-x684-96hh-833x)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
420329	SCA: security update for craftcms/cms (GHSA-x684-96hh-833x)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2025-23209

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Tenable Plugins

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high

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