Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. Prior to 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34, an attacker with read and create or update access to a collection containing a json field or a blocks field with blocksAsJSON enabled can inject SQL through a crafted field path and operators. Collections without those fields are not affected, and richText fields are not affected. The SQLite packages are fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34, and the Postgres packages are fixed in version 3.73.0.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00269.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
payloadcms payload affected
Version Status Constraints
>= 3.0.0, < 3.90.0 affected —
>= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34 affected —
@payloadcms db-d1-sqlite affected
Version Status Constraints
>= 3.0.0, < 3.90.0 affected —
>= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34 affected —
@payloadcms db-postgres affected
Version Status Constraints
>= 3.0.0 < 3.73.0 affected —
@payloadcms db-sqlite affected
Version Status Constraints
>= 3.0.0, < 3.90.0 affected —
>= 4.0.0-canary.0, < 4.0.0-canary.34 affected —
@payloadcms db-vercel-postgres affected
Version Status Constraints
>= 3.0.0 < 3.73.0 affected —

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pj7x-6wpf-pgvp Payload: SQL injection in SQLite/Postgres
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/03b78c7e0901d19c67f07bdf6396a276010adbcc cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-pj7x-6wpf-pgvp cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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Description Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. Prior to 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34, an attacker with read and create or update access to a collection containing a json field or a blocks field with blocksAsJSON enabled can inject SQL through a crafted field path and operators. Collections without those fields are not affected, and richText fields are not affected. The SQLite packages are fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34, and the Postgres packages are fixed in version 3.73.0.
Title Payload: SQL injection in SQLite/Postgres
Weaknesses CWE-89
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T17:39:22.911Z

Reserved: 2026-10-05T23:06:29.748Z

Link: CVE-2026-105856

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-06T17:17:21.570

Modified: 2026-10-06T20:03:40.690

Link: CVE-2026-105856

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Updated: 2026-10-06T18:00:05Z

Weaknesses