High

Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel

  • Disclosed: 15.12.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Impact

Impacted are only users which already have access to the admin UI. Over the API it was possible for them to give themselves permissions to areas which they did not already had. This issue was introduced in 2.0.0-RC1 with the new ProfileController putAction.

Patches

The versions have been patched in 2.2.18, 2.3.8 and 2.4.0.

Workarounds

Patching the ProfileController of affected sulu versions yourself by overwriting it.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package sulu/sulu >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.18, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.8, >= 2.4.0-RC1, < 2.4.0 2.2.18, 2.3.8, 2.4.0

References

CVSS score 7.2/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-269
Platform
Composer
Package
sulu/sulu
Disclosed
15.12.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-84px-q68r-2fc9 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: sulu/sulu

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (18) in the archive
Total entries
18
First → latest
08.2020 09.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 2
  • Medium 14
  • Low 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2020: 1
  2. 2021: 4
  3. 2022: 0
  4. 2023: 1
  5. 2024: 4
  6. 2025: 1
  7. 2026: 7
Severity:
  1. Privilege escalation in the Sulu Admin panel this entry
    High · 7.2 CVE-2021-43835 >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.18, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.8, >= 2.4.0-RC1, < 2.4.0 2.2.18, 2.3.8, 2.4.0
  2. High · 8.5 CVE-2021-43836 < 1.6.44, >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.18, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.8, >= 2.4.0-RC1, < 2.4.0 1.6.44, 2.2.18, 2.3.8, 2.4.0

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