CVE-2025-66300

HIGH8.5EPSS 0.07%

Grav is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read

Published: 12/2/2025Modified: 12/2/2025
Also known as:GHSA-p4ww-mcp9-j6f2

Description

### Summary - A low privilege user account with page editing privilege can read any server files using "Frontmatter" form. - This includes Grav user account files - /grav/user/accounts/*.yaml. This file stores hashed user password, 2FA secret, and the password reset token. - This can allow an adversary to compromise any registered account by resetting a password for a user to get access to the password reset token from the file or by cracking the hashed password. ### Details _The vulnerability can be found in /user/plugins/form/templates/forms/fields/display/display.html.twig_ ![image](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/assets/28057767/953dbdf1-310f-4c8e-866c-8470d70cc11d) ### PoC 1. This PoC was conducted on Grav CMS version 1.7.46 and Admin Plugin version 1.10.46 ![image](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/assets/28057767/6c8607d6-cea3-4699-8a5a-8a04d047676f) 2. go to “http://grav.local/admin/pages” then create new page with “Page Template” option set to “Form”. ![image](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/assets/28057767/451fe8bc-2e2e-4f8a-a548-385aca6d5504) 3. Then go to “Expert” and on Frontmatter input box used to following form template. ![image](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/assets/28057767/9e44758a-021a-45fd-9e26-03abbf8095ef) 4. Save page and go the preview or published page you will see the content of “/etc/passwd” file on the server. ![image](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/assets/28057767/94dc2363-10e1-4e74-81e4-6c7a09db4dff) ### Impact This can allow a low privileged user to perform a full account takeover of other registered users including Administrators. This can also allow an adversary to read any file on the web server. And Due to insufficient permission verification , user who can write a page also can use frontmatter feature using this IDOR vulnerability [PoC IDOR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1QA0idoWE&ab_channel=%EA%B9%80%EC%A2%85%EB%AF%BC) mention in [CVE-2024-2792](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/security/advisories/GHSA-f6g2-h7qv-3m5v)

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L

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