CVE-2026-105855

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, the server fails to enforce a field-level access.update restriction on the password field of an authentication collection. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

CVSS 4.0

7.6CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-284

Published

2026-10-06

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• payloadcms:payload

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/9de9e7911e29d60870a1d5480412524c63d6411e
• https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0
• https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-fx49-4h83-wjv9

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