Unauthorized taxonomy term creation via field actions
Published Mar 20, 2026 · Updated Mar 20, 2026
Missing authorization in Statamic CMS 5.x before 5.73.14 and 6.x before 6.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to create taxonomy terms. The Control Panel field action processing endpoint accepts attacker-controlled field definitions and invokes taxonomy term creation without the permission check used by the standard creation endpoint. Low-privileged Control Panel access is sufficient, and exploitation adds unauthorized taxonomy content without reported confidentiality or availability impact.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in Statamic CMS 5.x before 5.73.14 and 6.x before 6.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to create taxonomy terms. The Control Panel field action processing endpoint accepts attacker-controlled field definitions and invokes taxonomy term creation without the permission check used by the standard creation endpoint. Low-privileged Control Panel access is sufficient, and exploitation adds unauthorized taxonomy content without reported confidentiality or availability impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-33177
- Published
- Mar 20, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 20, 2026
- Vendor
- Statamic, LLC
- Product
- Statamic CMS
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 20, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 20, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 5.73.14
- Affected versionversion=>= 6.0.0-alpha.1, < 6.7.0
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