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Kirby: System path exposure from error messages in the REST APIGHSA-rf2p-vh74-7vvh

Fix: getkirby/kirby@469c5a1

GHSA-rf2p-vh74-7vvh is a CWE-497 vulnerability in getkirby/cms. A fix is available for getkirby/cms — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2026-69127
Published
Updated
Affected
2 pkgs
Patched
2 / 2
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 18, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
  • 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 GHSA-rf2p-vh74-7vvh.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs42th percentile — riskier than 42% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.34%0.67%1.01%0.3%0.5%0.5%Sep 26Oct 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

Real-World Exposure

2 pkgs affected
🐘getkirby/cms🐘getkirby/cms

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

TL;DR

This vulnerability affects all Kirby sites that have not disabled the REST API with the 'api' => false option.

It was possible to trigger a PHP error in the API backend that would expose the full filesystem path of the Kirby installation on the server. This could be used to guess the default content.salt or prepare specialized attacks.


Introduction

An information exposure occurs when system data or debugging information leaves the program through an output stream or logging function that makes it accessible to unauthorized parties. Using other weaknesses, an attacker could cause errors to occur; the response to these errors can reveal detailed system information, along with other impacts. An attacker can use messages that reveal technologies, operating systems, and product versions to tune the attack against known vulnerabilities in these technologies. A product may use diagnostic methods that provide significant implementation details such as stack traces as part of its error handling mechanism.

Affected components

Kirby's REST API at /api returns JSON data for each request. If an error occurs during processing of the request, a special error handler converts this error to JSON data that API frontends can handle.

The returned data for errors depends on the debugging mode. If the debug option is enabled, the JSON data contains fields for the path and line of the affected file, the internal exception class and the API route that caused the error. This data is omitted from error responses in production (when the debug option is disabled).

Impact

Some internal errors may contain sensitive information in the error message itself. This is often the case with PHP errors.

In affected releases, the REST API error handler did not sanitize error messages for sensitive information.

This exposed system information like the full source path to external API users, including users without authentication. This could be used to guess the default content.salt or prepare specialized attacks.

Patches

The problem has been patched in Kirby 4.9.5 and Kirby 5.5.2. Please update to one of these or a later version to fix the vulnerability.

In all of the mentioned releases, Kirby has hardened the API error handler to only expose full error messages for exceptions in the Kirby\Exception namespace. All other errors are only exposed in debug mode (with disguised paths, keeping only the paths relative to the Kirby installation). Outside of debug mode, general exceptions and PHP errors are replaced with a generic error message.

Credits

Thanks to Peter Levashov (@petersevera) for responsibly reporting the identified issue.

Affected Packages

2 total 2 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistgetkirby/cmsall versions4.9.5composer require getkirby/cms:^4.9.5
🐘Packagistgetkirby/cms≥ 5.0.0&&< 5.5.25.5.2composer require getkirby/cms:^5.5.2

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for getkirby/cms, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update getkirby/cms to 4.9.5 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-rf2p-vh74-7vvh is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. 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

### TL;DR This vulnerability affects all Kirby sites that have not disabled the REST API with the `'api' => false` option. It was possible to trigger a PHP error in the API backend that would expose the full filesystem path of the Kirby installation on the server. This could be used to guess the default `content.salt` or prepare specialized attacks. ---- ### Introduction An information exposure occurs when system data or debugging information leaves the program through an output stream or logging function that makes it accessible to unauthorized parties. Using other weaknesses, an attacke
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