Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-46731

High

Published: 05 May 2025

Published
05 May 2025
Modified
03 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 7.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/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
EPSS Score 0.0091 76.3th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-46731 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine (CWE-1336) vulnerability in Craftcms Craft Cms. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Template Injection (T1221); ranked in the top 23.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Craft is a content management system. Versions of Craft CMS on the 4.x branch prior to 4.14.13 and on the 5.x branch prior to 5.6.16 contains a potential remote code execution vulnerability via Twig SSTI. One must have administrator access…

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and `ALLOW_ADMIN_CHANGES` must be enabled for this to work. Users should update to the patched versions 4.14.13 or 5.6.15 to mitigate the issue.

CWE(s)
CWE-1336

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1221 Template Injection Stealth
Adversaries may create or modify references in user document templates to conceal malicious code or force authentication attempts.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability is a Twig Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) enabling remote code execution with admin access (T1221: Template Injection). It also facilitates exploitation of a remote web service for code execution (T1210: Exploitation of Remote Services).

Affected Assets

craftcms
craft cms
4.0.0, 5.0.0 · 4.1.0 — 4.14.13 · 5.1.0 — 5.6.15

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References