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CVE-2026-105851: Payload: Field access control bypass on auth collections

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-06 · updated 2026-10-15
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions from 3.0.0 before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, the duplicate operation copies values from a source document even when a field is hidden or its access.read or access.create rule rejects that value for the caller. The disableDuplicate setting does not prevent this access-control bypass. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Affected products

• payloadcms payload: from 3.0.0 before 3.90.0; 4.0.0-canary0, 4.0.0-canary1, 4.0.0-canary10, 4.0.0-canary11, 4.0.0-canary12, 4.0.0-canary13 (+28) — fixed in 3.90.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: payloadcms payload 3.90.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/099ef12e2682f076aa8e8d0ccb790536b4e1027f
• https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0
• https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-vc4h-q48j-5hcx

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