CVE-2026-34751

Payload has Unvalidated Input in Password Recovery Endpoints

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.1
EPSS: EPSS 0.31 % · percentile 23 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-04-01
Updated: 2026-04-04
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. Prior to version 3.79.1 in @payloadcms/graphql and payload, a vulnerability in the password recovery flow could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform actions on behalf of a user who initiates a password reset. This issue has been patched in version 3.79.1 for @payloadcms/graphql and payload.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

GHSA-hp5w-3hxx-vmwf — Payload: Pre-Authentication Account Takeover via Parameter Injection in Password Recovery

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-17991
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-34751

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* < 3.79.1

Affected products

Product	Versions
payloadcms · payload	affected < 3.79.1

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD