CVE-2026-105804: Payloadcms Payload

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. Payload versions from 3.0.0 before 3.90.0 and canary versions from 4.0.0-canary.0 before 4.0.0-canary.34 use a lower-than-recommended PBKDF2 work factor for password hashing, reducing the computational effort required to test recovered password hashes. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Affected products

• Payloadcms Payload: from 3.0.0, before 3.90.0 (fixed in 3.90.0); from 4.0.0-canary.0, before 4.0.0-canary.34 (fixed in 4.0.0-canary.34)

Published 2026-10-06. Last modified 2026-10-06.