Description
The strapi/review-workflows package is vulnerable to a broken access control vulnerability allowing updates to be made without verifying whether the caller possesses update rights for the underlying document.
Published: 2026-10-27
Score: n/a
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: Unauthorized updates to content
Action: Apply Patch
AI Analysis

Impact

Strapi’s review‑workflows package contains a broken access control flaw that permits anyone who can reach the update endpoint to change the underlying document data without first verifying that the caller holds the proper update permissions. The vulnerability allows an attacker to alter protected records, potentially compromising data integrity and confidentiality of the CMS. No additional side effects such as denial‑of‑service are described in the advisory, and the problem is limited to the write operation exposed by the package.

Affected Systems

The flaw affects both the Strapi Open Source and Enterprise Headless CMS that use the review‑workflows plugin. Version information is not explicitly listed in the advisory, so any deployment incorporating the vulnerable package is potentially impacted until a fix is applied.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score is not provided, and the EPSS metric is unavailable, but the existence of a broken access control weakness suggests a potentially high exploitation likelihood for an attacker who can authenticate to the system with any account or for an unauthenticated attacker if the plugin endpoint is publicly exposed. The vulnerability is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog. Without a remedy, the attacker could modify any document the plugin allows updating, thereby creating or injecting illicit content.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 27, 2026 at 20:43 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Upgrade Strapi to version 5.51.0 or later to receive the patched review‑workflows package
  • Verify that all instances of the review‑workflows plugin are upgraded and that no legacy version remains
  • If an upgrade is delayed, disable or remove the review‑workflows plugin until the patch is applied

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 27, 2026 at 20:43 UTC.

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History

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-284

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Description The strapi/review-workflows package is vulnerable to a broken access control vulnerability allowing updates to be made without verifying whether the caller possesses update rights for the underlying document.
Title CVE-2026-118170
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-27T18:02:55.025Z

Reserved: 2026-10-27T17:58:54.799Z

Link: CVE-2026-118170

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-27T19:17:28.450

Modified: 2026-10-27T19:17:28.450

Link: CVE-2026-118170

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Updated: 2026-10-27T20:45:08Z

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