Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A04:2025 - Cryptographic Failures
ASVS 5.0
V11 - Cryptography Signature verification
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 15, 2026
Any authenticated user of a Payload CMS instance running @jhb.software/payload-cloudinary-plugin (0.3.0 through 0.3.x, fixed in 0.4.0) can obtain a cryptographically valid Cloudinary HMAC-SHA1 upload signature for parameters of their choosing, because the client-upload signing endpoint POST /api/cloudinary-generate-signature forwards attacker-controlled 'paramsToSign' straight to cloudinary.utils.api_sign_request() with no key allowlist, folder policy, or timestamp check. With that signature plus the intentionally client-visible Cloudinary API key, an attacker can overwrite existing assets, flip upload visibility with type=private, register notification_url callbacks to attacker-chosen hosts, force cache invalidation, and write files outside the intended upload folder. The issue is only reachable when the plugin's clientUploads option is enabled, and no public exploit code or active-exploitation reporting was present in the supplied intelligence.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Affects 2 packages in npm, euvd
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Payload Plugins is a collection of plugins designed to enhance Payload CMS. From 0.3.0 until 0.4.0, @jhb.software/payload-cloudinary-plugin deployments with clientUploads enabled expose POST /api/cloudinary-generate-signature, whose handler in cloudinary/src/getGenerateSignature.ts passes attacker-controlled body.paramsToSign directly to cloudinary.utils.api_sign_request without a key allowlist, collection policy, timestamp freshness check, or configured-folder enforcement. Any authenticated Payload user can obtain a valid Cloudinary HMAC-SHA1 signature for unauthorized parameters such as overwrite, type, notification_url, invalidate, folder, and public_id. The signature can authorize asset replacement, upload visibility changes, callbacks to attacker-selected URLs, cache invalidation, and uploads outside the intended folder. The client-visible Cloudinary API key is expected by the upload design, but the unrestricted server-side signature supplies the authorization value needed to complete these operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.4.0.
Technical POC Analysis
CWE-347 (Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature), in practice an unauthenticated-parameter signing oracle.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-78825
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