VulnerabilityPublished 30 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-34557: ci4-cms-erp ci4ms · Cross-site Scripting

Affects ci4-cms-erp ci4msSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.1 Critical : upgrade to 0.31.0.0 as a priority.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

9.1Critical

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Contested

Critical score, yet low EPSS after six months

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 24% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 0.31.0.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: Low: Performance is reduced or there are interruptions in resource availability. Even if repeated exploitation of the vulnerability is possible, the attacker does not have the ability to completely deny service to legitimate users. The resources in the impacted component are either partially available all of the time, or fully available only some of the time, but overall there is no direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 30 Mar 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade ci4ms and ci4-cms-erp/ci4ms to 0.31.0.0.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
ci4-cms-erpci4ms	Affected <0.31.0.0	Fixed in 0.31.0.0
GitHubci4-cms-erp/ci4ms`pkg:github/ci4-cms-erp/ci4ms`Other threats	Affected <0.31.0.0	Fixed in 0.31.0.0

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AI-suggested

Upgrade to ci4ms version 0.31.0.0 or later, where this vulnerability has been patched. Applying this official fix eliminates the improper input sanitization and unsafe output encoding that lead to stored XSS. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

CI4MS versions prior to 0.31.0.0 contain a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the group and role management functionality. The application fails to properly sanitize user input in multiple group-related fields, allowing malicious JavaScript payloads to be stored server-side. These payloads are then rendered unsafely in privileged administrative views without proper output encoding, leading to stored XSS within the role and permission management context. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.31.0.0.

Impact

Successful exploitation allows an attacker with at least limited privileges to inject malicious JavaScript into group and role management fields. This stored payload executes in the context of privileged administrative users viewing these fields, potentially leading to session hijacking, privilege escalation, or other impacts associated with stored XSS. The vulnerability affects confidentiality, integrity, and availability as indicated by the CVSS vector (C:H/I:L/A:L).

Summary

CI4MS, a CodeIgniter 4-based CMS skeleton, suffers from a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability (CWE-79) in versions before 0.31.0.0. The issue arises because user-controlled input in three distinct group-related fields is not properly sanitized before storage. When these malicious inputs are later rendered in administrative interfaces without appropriate output encoding, it results in stored XSS that can affect privileged users managing roles and permissions. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.1, indicating critical severity. The vendor has released version 0.31.0.0 which patches this issue.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

github.com/ci4-cms-erp/ci4ms/security/advisories/GHSA-rpjr-985c-qhvm (opens in a new tab)

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 7 Apr 2026, 10:55 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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