CVE-2026-57518 | Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 contains a privilege escalation vulnerabi… | CVSS 8.8 HIGH

Description

Pagekit CMS 1.0.18 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated users with the 'user: manage users' permission to escalate privileges by assigning arbitrary custom roles to themselves due to missing authorization checks in UserApiController::saveAction(). Attackers can assign themselves a custom role with the 'system: manage packages' permission and then upload and install a malicious PHP package through the admin package installer to achieve remote code execution.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-57518
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 2026-06-24 15:58 UTC
Published: 2026-06-26 15:58 UTC
Last updated: 2026-06-26 18:41 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-862
Missing Authorization
Vendor / Product: pagekit / pagekit
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

8.8 HIGH CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: PoC
Automatable: no
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
pagekit	pagekit	—	0 ≤ 1.0.18

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-862	cna	Missing Authorization

CVSS scores (2)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
8.8	HIGH	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.7	HIGH	4.0	cna	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References (2)