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Description

Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated users with the 'user: manage users' permission to escalate privileges by assigning arbitrary custom roles to themselves due to missing authorization checks in UserApiController::saveAction(). Attackers can assign themselves a custom role with the 'system: manage packages' permission and then upload and install a malicious PHP package through the admin package installer to achieve remote code execution.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-24 | Published 2026-06-26 | Updated 2026-06-26 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
affected

Any version
affected

Credits

Saidakbarxon Maqsudxonov finder

References

gist.github.com/sermikr0/6f0a67e9d101746fcdb04827de137847 (Researcher Disclosure) technical-description exploit

www.vulncheck.com/...vilege-escalation-via-userapicontroller third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-57518)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-57518)

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