Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in Payload

Description

An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the file upload module of PayloadCMS v0.15.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SVG file.

Recommendation

Update the payload package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 0.15.0
• Patched version(s): 0.15.1

References

• GHSA-w8xh-93qh-35vw
• www.youtube.com
• CVE-2022-27952
• CWE-434
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• vite allows server.fs.deny bypass via backslash on Windows - CVE-2025-62522
• Vite's `server.fs` settings were not applied to HTML files - CVE-2025-58752
• Payload's SQLite adapter Session Fixation vulnerability (GHSA-26rv-h2hf-3fw4) 2 - CVE-2025-4644
• Payload does not invalidate JWTs after log out (GHSA-5v66-m237-hwf7) 2 - CVE-2025-4643

Tags:

npm

payload