Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions 4.13.40 through 5.3.46 and 5.7.0-RC1 through 5.7.6, the crawler leaks auth credentials to external hosts. Contao's crawler tries to prevent confidential HTTP client options from being sent to external domains by creating a scoped client: full options for root page origins, cleaned options for everything else. The cleaner removes Cookie and Authorization headers, but it removes the non-Symfony option names basic_auth and bearer_auth instead of Symfony HttpClient's real auth_basic and auth_bearer options. When contao.crawl.default_http_client_options contains Basic or Bearer authentication for a protected staging/production site, those credentials remain in the "clean" client used for external links or configured additional URIs. An attacker who can get an external URL crawled, for example through a link on a crawled page while the broken-link checker is enabled, can receive the crawler credentials. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.3.47 and 5.7.7.
CVE-2026-55824
This low-severity CVE scores 2.6 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 95% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 2.6
- EG Score
- 2.6(medium)
- EG Risk
- 12(Track)EG Risk 12/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity26% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 31, 2026
Last Modified
July 31, 2026
References (1)
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-3mr9-p497-58f6
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-55824(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(2 across 1 ecosystem)
Packagist(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| contao/contao | 5.4.0 ... 5.7.6 (62 versions) | 5.7.7 | — |
| contao/core-bundle | 5.4.0 ... 5.7.6 (62 versions) | 5.7.7 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 27× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 13:26 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-16 10:31 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-13 07:42 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-08-03 23:13 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-31 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-31 19:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-31 19:08 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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