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CVE-2024-21622: craftcms cms Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
Published 03-01-2024Last modified 17-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-21622 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in craftcms cms. EPSS estimates a 0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.59%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 03-01-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.59%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

47%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.59% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.59%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Craftcms2 products
  • cms≥ 4.0.0-RC1, < 4.5.11 | ≥ 3.0.0, < 3.9.6
  • craft_cms≥ 3.0.0, < 3.9.6 | ≥ 4.0.0, ≤ 4.5.15

1 vendor · 2 products

References

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