CVE-2026-59989

critical

Description

Phalcon is a high-performance, full-stack PHP framework. In 5.15.0 and earlier, resolveFilter in phalcon/Mvc/View/Engine/Volt/Compiler.zep builds the join filter by inserting the raw separator and array token values into generated PHP without passing them through expression(). An attacker who can influence Volt template source can place quote-breaking content in a join argument, inject PHP into the compiled cache file, and execute it when Phalcon\Mvc\View\Engine\Volt::render() loads the template. This issue is fixed in version 5.16.0.

References

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/security/advisories/GHSA-hrwp-4hh9-c8r8

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/releases/tag/v5.16.0

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/pull/17217

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/commit/e434061be3b7161930476c1368c868badc71e1bd

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-21

Updated: 2026-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.2

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Critical