CVE-2026-40500

April 15, 2026, 10:17 p.m.

6.1
Medium

Description

ProcessWire CMS version 3.0.255 and prior contain a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the admin panel's 'Add Module From URL' feature that allows authenticated administrators to supply arbitrary URLs to the module download parameter, causing the server to issue outbound HTTP requests to attacker-controlled internal or external hosts. Attackers can exploit differentiable error messages returned by the server to perform reliable internal network port scanning, host enumeration across RFC-1918 ranges, and potential access to cloud instance metadata endpoints.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Processwire
  • Processwire Cms
  • <=3.0.255

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-918
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a processwire processwire_cms <=3.0.255 / / / / / / /

References

https://gist.github.com/thepiyushkumarshukla/7514e5eed526fd9d20fcfc42ce8d0a82
https://processwire.com/
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/processwire-cms-ssrf-via-add-module-from-url

Tags

CWE-918
[email protected]
2026-04-15
CVE-2026-40500

CVSS Score

6.1 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: April 15, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Last Modified: April 15, 2026, 10:17 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

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