CVE-2026-105845: Payloadcms Payload

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Payload is a free and open source headless content management system. In versions from 3.0.0 before 3.88.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.27, an untrusted user who can query readable collections through dynamic filters or joins can submit a request that causes SQL injection in the SQLite and Postgres adapters. This issue is fixed in versions 3.88.0 and 4.0.0-canary.27.

Affected products

• Payloadcms Payload: from 3.0.0, before 3.88.0 (fixed in 3.88.0); from 4.0.0-canary.0, before 4.0.0-canary.27 (fixed in 4.0.0-canary.27)

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