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CVE-2026-125398VulnerabilityPublished

Instatic before 0.0.21 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in handleRowAuthor that allows authenticated

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-125398· High 7.1

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.1 High : upgrade to 0.0.21 soon.

Data as of 10 Nov 2026, 01:20 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
7.1High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 4.07.1
CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS 3.17.1
Patch
Available – fixed in 0.0.21
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 9 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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 9 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Instatic to 0.0.21.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
CoreBunchInstaticAffected
  • <0.0.21
Fixed in
  • 0.0.21
GitHubInstaticpkg:github/InstaticOther threatsAffected
  • <0.0.21
Fixed in
  • 0.0.21

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AI-suggested

If you cannot patch yet, restrict permissions to prevent users with content.edit.any but without data.system.tables.read from accessing the vulnerable API endpoint.

Description

Instatic versions before 0.0.21 have an authorization bypass vulnerability in the handleRowAuthor function. Authenticated users with the content.edit.any permission but without data.system.tables.read can exploit this flaw by sending PATCH requests to the /admin/api/cms/data/rows/:id/author endpoint. This allows them to read system-table rows and reassign their authors by bypassing table-level access controls.

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