Umbraco Affected by Vertical Privilege Escalation via Missing Authorization Checks
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in Umbraco CMS. Under certain conditions, authenticated backoffice users with permission to manage users, may be able to elevate their privileges due to insufficient authorization enforcement when modifying user group memberships.
The affected functionality does not properly validate whether a user has sufficient privileges to assign highly privileged roles.
Impact
An authenticated backoffice user may be able to escalate their privileges to Administrator level.
Successful exploitation results in full administrative control of the affected Umbraco CMS instance, including unrestricted access to content, user management, and configuration settings.
The impact is significantly mitigated by the fact that this can only be exploited by a user that has already been given access to the "Users" section in the CMS. For most Umbraco setups, such users are already also "Administrators".
Patches
The issue is patched in 16.5.1 and 17.2.2.
Workarounds
There is no workaround other than upgrading for setups where they want to have users with permission for the "Users" section without also being content with those users also being part of the "Administrators" user group.
Software afectado
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| Plataforma | Paquete | Versiones vulnerables | Corregida en |
|---|---|---|---|
| .NET (NuGet) | Umbraco.Cms | >= 15.3.1, < 16.5.1, >= 17.0.0, < 17.2.2 | 16.5.1, 17.2.2 |
Referencias
- Vector CVSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Debilidad (CWE)
CWE-269- Plataforma
- .NET (NuGet)
- Paquete
Umbraco.Cms- Publicada
- 11.03.2026
- Actualizado
- 11.10.2026 11:23
Fuentes y licencias
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-rhcg-3h8r-v6vp - CC BY 4.0
Historial de vulnerabilidades: Umbraco.Cms
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- Entradas en total
- 29
- Primera → última
- 05.2022 09.2026
- Sin corrección
- 1
- Explotada en ataques
- 0
Distribución por gravedad
- Alta 5
- Media 17
- Baja 7
Divulgaciones por año
- 2022: 2
- 2023: 8
- 2024: 5
- 2025: 8
- 2026: 6
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