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CVE-2018-20465

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-12-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-311

Description

Craft CMS through 3.0.34 allows remote authenticated administrators to read sensitive information via server-side template injection, as demonstrated by a {% string for craft.app.config.DB.user and craft.app.config.DB.password in the URI Format of the Site Settings, which causes a cleartext username and password to be displayed in a URI field.

Affected products

• craftcms cms: through 3.0.34

References

• https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/master/CHANGELOG-v3.md
• https://github.com/phuctam/Server-Side-Template-Injection-in-CraftCMS-/issues/1
• https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/master/CHANGELOG-v3.md
• https://github.com/phuctam/Server-Side-Template-Injection-in-CraftCMS-/issues/1

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