CVE-2023-30843 — payload
HIGHCVE-2023-30843 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.4) Information Exposure vulnerability in payload. A fix is available for payload — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Payload's hidden fields can be leaked on readable collections
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2023-30843.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
payloadnpmDescription
Details
If a user has access to documents that contain hidden fields or fields they do not have access to, the user could reverse-engineer those values via brute force.
Affected versions: < 1.7.0
Workarounds
If you are unable to update, you can write a beforeOperation hook to remove where queries that attempt to access hidden field data.
Detecting Compromise
Monitor your instance for brute-force style requests against your instance using where queries.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | payload | all versions | 1.7.0npm install payload@1.7.0 |
Affected Products
payloadpayloadcmsDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for payload, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update payload to 1.7.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2023-30843 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2023-30843 in your dependencies?
Find it across npm, including transitive dependencies.