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GHSA-hm5p-82g6-m3xh

MediumCVSS 6 / 10
Published Jan 30, 2026·Last modified Feb 3, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

It's possible for an authenticated backoffice-user to enumerate and traverse paths/files on the systems filesystem and read their contents, on Mac/Linux Umbraco installations using Forms. As Umbraco Cloud runs in a Windows environment, Cloud users aren't affected.

Patches

This issue affects versions 16 and 17 of Umbraco Forms and is patched in 16.4.1 and 17.1.1

Workarounds

If upgrading is not immediately possible, users can mitigate this vulnerability by:

  • Configuring a WAF or reverse proxy to block requests containing path traversal sequences (../, ..\) in the fileName parameter of the export endpoint
  • Restricting network access to the Umbraco backoffice to trusted IP ranges
  • Blocking the /umbraco/forms/api/v1/export endpoint entirely if the export feature is not required

However, upgrading to the patched version is strongly recommended.

References

Credit to Kevin Joensen from Baldur Security for finding this vulnerability

Risk Scores
Base Score
6.0

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.

Threat Intelligence
2.3

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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