CVE-2026-105859: 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 before 3.90.0 and canary versions before 4.0.0-canary.34, an attacker can submit a request to a specific update endpoint that modifies collection documents without enforcing collection or field-level access control when orderable is enabled on a collection or join field. This issue is fixed in versions 3.90.0 and 4.0.0-canary.34.

Affected products

• Payloadcms Payload: 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.