CVE-2026-44177 Details.
Kirby CMS 5.3.0-5.4.0 - Path Traversal
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About CVE-2026-44177. What It Means.
Kirby CMS versions 5.3.0 through 5.4.0 are vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability via the /api/auth/login endpoint. An unauthenticated attacker may supply a specially crafted email value in the request body containing traversal sequences (such as "../.."), which the application concatenates directly into a filesystem path when hydrating user objects. This can result in the resolution of paths outside the intended accounts directory and may lead to the inclusion of unin…
Affected Product. What Is Hit.
- Vendor
- getkirby
- Product
- Getkirby Kirby
FAQ
Common Questions.
Kirby CMS 5.3.0-5.4.0 - Path Traversal. Kirby CMS versions 5.3.0 through 5.4.0 are vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability via the /api/auth/login endpoint. An unauthenticated attacker may supply a specially crafted email value in the request body containing traversal sequences (such as "../.."), which the application concatenates directly into a filesystem path when hydrating user objects. This can result in the resolution of paths outside the intended accounts directory and may lead to the inclusion of unin…
No. To test for this one, the check would have to send requests that could change data on the site. Atlas only ever reads public pages, so it does not run this check. The facts about CVE-2026-44177 are on this page, and you can request a demo to see how Brandefense watches your whole external attack surface.
CVE-2026-44177 is not on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list at the time of writing, but it is still worth fixing.
Update Getkirby Kirby to the latest version from the vendor, or follow the vendor's advice to switch off the affected feature. Vendor links are listed on this page when they are known.
This page lists the public facts about CVE-2026-44177. Atlas does not run a check for it, so nothing here says whether a particular site is affected.