{"id":"CVE-2026-39397","aliases":["EUVD-2026-19921","GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85"],"status":"published","title":"@delmaredigital/payload-puc is missing authorization on /api/puck/* CRUD endpoints allows unauthenticated access to Puck-registered collections","description":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck is a PayloadCMS plugin for integrating Puck visual page builder. Prior to 0.6.23, all /api/puck/* CRUD endpoint handlers registered by createPuckPlugin() called Payload's local API with the default overrideAccess: true, bypassing all collection-level access control. The access option passed to createPuckPlugin() and any access rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.23.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00391,"percentile":0.33542,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2026-04-07T20:09:19Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:35Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck","fixed_in":["0.6.23"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.23"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.23"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"delmaredigital","product":"payload-puck"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck/security/advisories/GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Patch","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck/issues/7","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Exploit","Issue Tracking","report","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck/commit/9148201c6bbfa140d44546438027a2f8a70f79a4","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39397","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/39xxx/CVE-2026-39397.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/delmaredigital/payload-puck","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-39397","title":"@delmaredigital/payload-puc is missing authorization on /api/puck/* CRUD endpoints allows unauthenticated access to Puck-registered collections","description":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck is a PayloadCMS plugin for integrating Puck visual page builder. Prior to 0.6.23, all /api/puck/* CRUD endpoint handlers registered by createPuckPlugin() called Payload's local API with the default overrideAccess: true, bypassing all collection-level access control. The access option passed to createPuckPlugin() and any access rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.23.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-07T20:09:19.962Z","modified":"2026-04-07T20:33:24.005Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:02.662847Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-19921","description":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck is a PayloadCMS plugin for integrating Puck visual page builder. Prior to 0.6.23, all /api/puck/* CRUD endpoint handlers registered by createPuckPlugin() called Payload's local API with the default overrideAccess: true, bypassing all collection-level access control. The access option passed to createPuckPlugin() and any access rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.23.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-07T20:09:19Z","modified":"2026-04-07T20:33:24Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:25:12.431163Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85","title":"@delmaredigital/payload-puc is missing authorization on /api/puck/* CRUD endpoints allows unauthenticated access to Puck-registered collections","description":"### Impact\n\nAll `/api/puck/*` CRUD endpoint handlers registered by `createPuckPlugin()` called Payload's local API with the default `overrideAccess: true`, bypassing all collection-level access control. The `access` option passed to `createPuckPlugin()` and any `access` rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints.\n\nAn unauthenticated remote attacker could:\n\n- List all documents (including drafts) in any Puck-registered collection\n- Read any document by ID (including drafts)\n- Create new documents with arbitrary field values\n- Update any document (including bypassing field-level access rules)\n- Delete any document\n- Read version history and restore arbitrary versions\n\n**In typical installations**, the affected scope is the collection backing the website's pages (default slug: `pages`). For most users this means an attacker could read, modify, create, or delete every page on the website — including unpublished drafts and version history.\n\n**Scope is limited to collections explicitly registered with `createPuckPlugin()`** — the endpoints validate the collection slug against an allowlist, so attackers cannot pivot to other Payload collections such as `users`, `media`, or business data not exposed to the plugin. The auto-created `puck-templates`, `puck-ai-prompts`, and `puck-ai-context` collections are also outside the allowlist; they have their own dedicated endpoints with separate authentication.\n\nOther endpoints in the plugin (AI, styles, prompts, context, and the Next.js API route factories in `src/api/`) were unaffected — they had their own authentication checks.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in **0.6.23**. All endpoint handlers in `src/endpoints/index.ts` now pass `overrideAccess: false` and forward `req` to Payload's local API, so collection-level access rules are evaluated against the current user.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nIf you cannot upgrade immediately, place a reverse-proxy or middleware authentication check in front of `/api/puck/*` to require an authenticated session before requests reach the plugin's handlers.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-08T00:15:54Z","modified":"2026-04-08T00:15:54Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:51.193071Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-39397","description":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck is a PayloadCMS plugin for integrating Puck visual page builder. Prior to 0.6.23, all /api/puck/* CRUD endpoint handlers registered by createPuckPlugin() called Payload's local API with the default overrideAccess: true, bypassing all collection-level access control. The access option passed to createPuckPlugin() and any access rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.23.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-07T21:17:18.16Z","modified":"2026-07-24T21:10:00.143Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:13.535987Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-39397","title":"@delmaredigital/payload-puc is missing authorization on /api/puck/* CRUD endpoints allows unauthenticated access to Puck-registered collections","description":"@delmaredigital/payload-puck is a PayloadCMS plugin for integrating Puck visual page builder. Prior to 0.6.23, all /api/puck/* CRUD endpoint handlers registered by createPuckPlugin() called Payload's local API with the default overrideAccess: true, bypassing all collection-level access control. The access option passed to createPuckPlugin() and any access rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.23.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-07T20:09:19.962Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:35.681559466Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:03.040464Z"},{"id":"GHSA-65w6-pf7x-5g85","title":"@delmaredigital/payload-puc is missing authorization on /api/puck/* CRUD endpoints allows unauthenticated access to Puck-registered collections","description":"### Impact\n\nAll `/api/puck/*` CRUD endpoint handlers registered by `createPuckPlugin()` called Payload's local API with the default `overrideAccess: true`, bypassing all collection-level access control. The `access` option passed to `createPuckPlugin()` and any `access` rules defined on Puck-registered collections were silently ignored on these endpoints.\n\nAn unauthenticated remote attacker could:\n\n- List all documents (including drafts) in any Puck-registered collection\n- Read any document by ID (including drafts)\n- Create new documents with arbitrary field values\n- Update any document (including bypassing field-level access rules)\n- Delete any document\n- Read version history and restore arbitrary versions\n\n**In typical installations**, the affected scope is the collection backing the website's pages (default slug: `pages`). For most users this means an attacker could read, modify, create, or delete every page on the website — including unpublished drafts and version history.\n\n**Scope is limited to collections explicitly registered with `createPuckPlugin()`** — the endpoints validate the collection slug against an allowlist, so attackers cannot pivot to other Payload collections such as `users`, `media`, or business data not exposed to the plugin. The auto-created `puck-templates`, `puck-ai-prompts`, and `puck-ai-context` collections are also outside the allowlist; they have their own dedicated endpoints with separate authentication.\n\nOther endpoints in the plugin (AI, styles, prompts, context, and the Next.js API route factories in `src/api/`) were unaffected — they had their own authentication checks.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in **0.6.23**. All endpoint handlers in `src/endpoints/index.ts` now pass `overrideAccess: false` and forward `req` to Payload's local API, so collection-level access rules are evaluated against the current user.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nIf you cannot upgrade immediately, place a reverse-proxy or middleware authentication check in front of `/api/puck/*` to require an authenticated session before requests reach the plugin's handlers.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-08T00:15:54Z","modified":"2026-04-08T00:56:21.663581Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:39.266402Z"}]}}