Advisories for Composer/Contao/Core-Bundle package

2026

Contao: Possible path traversal in job download URIs

An authenticated backend user who can access one job can request an attachment identifier containing ../ segments and make the job attachment download endpoint read a file from another job directory inside var/job-attachments. The controller authorizes only the jobUuid route parameter. The later attachment lookup joins that authorized job UUID with the attacker-controlled identifier, then passes the combined path to the virtual filesystem. VirtualFilesystem::resolve() canonicalizes the whole path and only …

Contao crawler leaks auth credentials to external hosts

Contao's crawler tries to prevent confidential HTTP client options from being sent to external domains by creating a scoped client: full options for root page origins, cleaned options for everything else. The cleaner removes Cookie and Authorization headers, but it removes the non-Symfony option names basic_auth and bearer_auth instead of Symfony HttpClient's real auth_basic and auth_bearer options. When contao.crawl.default_http_client_options contains Basic or Bearer authentication for a protected staging/production site, those …

2025
2024
2023

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Contao is an open source content management system. Prior to versions 4.9.40, 4.13.21, and 5.1.4, logged in users can list arbitrary system files in the file manager by manipulating the Ajax request. However, it is not possible to read the contents of these files. Users should update to Contao 4.9.40, 4.13.21 or 5.1.4 to receive a patch. There are no known workarounds.

2022
2021

Improper Privilege Management

Contao is an open source CMS that allows creation of websites and scalable web applications.All users are advised to update to Contao As a workaround users may disable the form generator or disable the login for untrusted back end users.

Code Injection

Contao is an open source CMS that allows you to create websites and scalable web applications.Update to Contao to resolve. If you cannot update then disable the login for untrusted back end users.

2020
2019

SQL injection vulnerability

Both the search filter in the back end and the "listing" module in the front end are vulnerable to SQL injection. To exploit the vulnerability in the back end, a back end user has to be logged in, whereas the front end vulnerability can be exploited by anyone.

2017