7.4
HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVE-2025-66297
Grav vulnerable to Privilege Escalation and Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Twig Injection
Description

Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 1.8.0-beta.27, a user with admin panel access and permissions to create or edit pages in Grav CMS can enable Twig processing in the page frontmatter. By injecting malicious Twig expressions, the user can escalate their privileges to admin or execute arbitrary system commands via the scheduler API. This results in both Privilege Escalation (PE) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.0-beta.27.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 1, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 1, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-66297 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Getgrav grav
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 4.0 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update Grav to version 1.8.0-beta.27 or later to fix privilege escalation and RCE.
  • Update Grav to 1.8.0-beta.27 or a later version.
  • Disable Twig processing in page frontmatter if possible.
  • Limit admin panel access to trusted users.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/e37259527d9c1deb6200f8967197a9fa587c6458
https://github.com/getgrav/grav/security/advisories/GHSA-858q-77wx-hhx6
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Dec. 01, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 1.8.0-beta.27, a user with admin panel access and permissions to create or edit pages in Grav CMS can enable Twig processing in the page frontmatter. By injecting malicious Twig expressions, the user can escalate their privileges to admin or execute arbitrary system commands via the scheduler API. This results in both Privilege Escalation (PE) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.0-beta.27.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-1336
    Added Reference https://github.com/getgrav/grav/commit/e37259527d9c1deb6200f8967197a9fa587c6458
    Added Reference https://github.com/getgrav/grav/security/advisories/GHSA-858q-77wx-hhx6
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.4
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Attack Requirements
Privileges Required
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