CVE-2026-105862: Payloadcms Payload

High severity, CVSS 8.7. EPSS: 0.2% 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, a collection that allows downloadable SVG uploads can store a malicious SVG that bypasses sanitization and executes attacker-controlled JavaScript when a user downloads and opens the SVG. 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.