CVE-2026-105857

Payload: RCE in Payload Form Builder

CRITICAL 10.0

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.43 % · percentile 37 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-10-06 16:26 UTC
Updated: 2026-10-06 17:23 UTC
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In @payloadcms/plugin-form-builder versions before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, an attacker can craft a form submission that executes code remotely on the server. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code
CWE-1321 — Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-r488-j9vj-wx3q — Payload Form Builder has an RCE issue

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-93501
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-105857

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* < 3.90.0
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary0:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary1:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary10:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary11:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary12:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary13:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary14:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary15:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary16:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary17:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary18:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary19:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary2:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary20:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary21:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary22:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary23:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary24:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary25:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary26:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary27:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary28:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary29:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary3:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary30:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary31:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary32:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary33:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary4:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary5:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary6:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary7:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary8:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:4.0.0:canary9:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
payloadcms · payload	affected < 3.90.0 ; affected >= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD