CVE-2026-59965@jhb.software/payload-alt-text-plugin: Alt Text Endpoint Authorization Bypass via Payload Local API `overrideAccess` Omission
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.38%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 68% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
Payload Plugins is a collection of plugins designed to enhance Payload CMS. In 0.7.0, @jhb.software/payload-alt-text-plugin exposes POST /api/alt-text-plugin/generate and POST /api/alt-text-plugin/bulk with a default guard that accepts any authenticated user, while alt-text/src/endpoints/generateAltText.ts and alt-text/src/endpoints/bulkGenerateAltTexts.ts call req.payload.findByID and req.payload.update without overrideAccess: false. Payload therefore defaults overrideAccess to true and skips the target collection's read and update access functions. An authenticated low-privilege user can supply id, collection, locale, and update values to read arbitrary protected upload documents and overwrite their alt and keywords fields, even when the collection permits those operations only to administrators. A control Local API call with overrideAccess: false is denied, confirming that the plugin endpoint bypasses otherwise effective collection rules. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.0.
Public exploit
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References tagged exploit1 reference
Timeline
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By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 2 days later
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Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
jhb-software · payload-plugins
- affected < 0.8.0
@jhb.software · payload-alt-text-plugin
- affected < 0.8.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npm@jhb.software/payload-alt-text-pluginGHSA-4qpv-39hg-f7fx (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/jhb-software/payload-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-4qpv-39hg-f7fx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/jhb-software/payload-plugins/pull/159 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jhb-software/payload-plugins/commit/e39634868ce13a414e2981e219befc58101654d3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jhb-software/payload-plugins/releases/tag/[email protected] (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-78819 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4qpv-39hg-f7fx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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