GHSA-wh3h-gvc4-cc2gMediumCVSS 4.3

Statamic is missing authorization check on taxonomy term creation via fieldtype

Published
March 18, 2026
Last Modified
March 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Low-privileged Control Panel users could create taxonomy terms by submitting requests to the field action processing endpoint with attacker-controlled field definitions. This bypasses the authorization checks enforced on the standard taxonomy term creation endpoint.

Patches

This has been fixed in 5.73.14 and 6.7.0.

🎯 Affected products2

  • composer/statamic/cms:>= 6.0.0-alpha.1, < 6.7.0
  • composer/statamic/cms:< 5.73.14

🔗 References (3)