Security Resilience

CVE-2023-36260

Craftcms Craft Cms ≤ 4.6.1.1

Published
30 January 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.011 64th percentile
Risk Priority 59 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-36260 is a high-severity Injection (CWE-74) vulnerability in Craftcms Craft Cms. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An issue was discovered in the Feed Me plugin 4.6.1 for Craft CMS. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted strings to Feed-Me Name and Feed-Me URL fields, due to saving a feed using…

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an Asset element type with no volume selected. NOTE: this is not a report about code provided by the Craft CMS product; it is only a report about the Feed Me plugin. NOTE: a third-party report states that commit b5d6ede51848349bd91bc95fec288b6793f15e28 has "nothing to do with security."

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2020-9757Same product: Craftcms Craft Cms
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CVE-2023-29827Shared CWE-74
CVE-2025-67746Shared CWE-74
CVE-2023-48830Shared CWE-74
CVE-2023-51939Shared CWE-74
CVE-2025-62697Shared CWE-74
CVE-2013-3628Shared CWE-74
CVE-2024-35777Shared CWE-74

Affected Assets

craftcms
craft cms
≤ 4.6.1.1

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 directly requires validation of information inputs to reject malformed or special-element content before it reaches downstream parsers.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.15 Logging partial match
finds

Logging supports detection of injection attempts but does not prevent the weakness.

finds

Monitoring activities can identify active injection attacks after they occur.

blocks

A.8.25 mandates a secure SDLC process that includes secure coding guidelines, security requirements, checkpoints, testing (scans/penetration), and developer training to reduce injection flaws, but does not itself enforce or guarantee neutralization of special elements at runtime.

blocks

Application security requirements explicitly call for controls against injection attacks in software design.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (including distrust external input, data validation/sanitization, secure architecture layers, and design reviews against attack patterns) that reach injection when applied to output construction; this stops exploitation for a minority slice (e.g. where principles drive sanitization) but leaves most code-level injection defects untouched without further implementation rigor.

prevents

Secure coding standards require proper neutralization of special elements, directly addressing CWE-74.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-74, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References