CVE-2020-15248: October CMS October

Medium severity, CVSS 4.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October CMS from version 1.0.319 and before version 1.0.470, backend users with the default "Publisher" system role have access to create & manage users where they can choose which role the new user has. This means that a user with "Publisher" access has the ability to escalate their access to "Developer" access. Issue has been patched in Build 470 (v1.0.470) & v1.1.1.

Affected products

• October CMS October: from 1.0.319, before 1.0.469 (fixed in 1.0.469)

Published 2020-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.