CVE-2026-23643

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

16/01/2026

Last modified:

16/01/2026

Description

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP. The PaginatorHelper::limitControl() method has a cross-site-scripting vulnerability via query string parameter manipulation. This issue has been fixed in 5.2.12 and 5.3.1.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.40 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

5.40

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://bakery.cakephp.org/2026/01/14/cakephp_5212.html
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/c842e7f45d85696e6527d8991dd72f525ced955f
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues/19172
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases/tag/5.2.12
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases/tag/5.3.1
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/security/advisories/GHSA-qh8m-9qxx-53m5