CVE-2023-30179

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

CraftCMS version 3.7.59 is vulnerable to Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI). An authenticated attacker can inject Twig Template to User Photo Location field when setting User Photo Location in User Settings, lead to Remote Code Execution. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because only Administrators can add this Twig code, and (by design) Administrators are allowed to do that by default.

Affected products

craftcms cms: 3.7.59

References

https://datnlq.gitbook.io/cve/craft-cms/cve-2023-30179-server-side-template-injection
https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#442---2023-03-14
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2443#issuecomment-1610040714
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2443#issuecomment-1610634200
https://datnlq.gitbook.io/cve/craft-cms/cve-2023-30179-server-side-template-injection
https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#442---2023-03-14
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2443#issuecomment-1610040714
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/2443#issuecomment-1610634200

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