# Kirby: Access to image files and limited access to JSON files outside of the site root via path traversal in the media handling

Advisory record · `GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w` · `CVE-2026-75594` · `PKSA-n74d-ghht-18nt`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.2 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-22](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md)
- **Published:** 31 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 31 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 31 Aug 2026, 22:12 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `getkirby/cms` (Packagist): affected `<4.9.5 || >=5.0.0, <5.5.2`; fixed in `4.9.5`, `5.5.2`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Kirby (Packagist package getkirby/cms) versions below 4.9.5 and from 5.0.0 up to but not including 5.5.2 are affected by a path traversal flaw in the media handling. On servers that accept encoded slashes in URLs, such as nginx or PHP's built-in server, a remote attacker can request thumbnails of media files in arbitrary accessible directories and detect whether JSON files exist elsewhere on the server; the source says this is high severity and that Apache with default settings is not affected. Upgrade to Kirby 4.9.5, 5.5.2, or a later version.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.2 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0076, the 55th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:06 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:06 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w)
- [OSV: GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w)
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/security/advisories/GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75594>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/22fbaedb7e6dd61f5def10829ba7bd7e73e0dcc9>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/a40808f5c2ee5d42bb597fb6ffbe0de0ce8e4d20>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/cd7abb68d298f3443eafd43fa2d0c7ad0f933d0e>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/e0dca5f709adc21b36f5549df2c0619bc59da56c>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/4.9.5>
- <https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/5.5.2>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-9vx2-j98c-p72w>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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