CVE-2026-48820: Cakephp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP. In versions 4.5.11 and earlier, 4.6.0 through 4.6.3, 5.0.0 through 5.1.6, 5.2.0 through 5.2.12, and 5.3.0 through 5.3.5, View::_getElementFileName() does not check that the resolved element path is within the application/plugin view template paths. When element names are created with specifically crafted user-supplied data this weakness can be leveraged to include other PHP files on the server. Patched releases are available in 5.3.6, 5.2.13, 5.1.7, 4.6.4, and 4.5.11.

Affected products

• Cakephp Cakephp: from 5.3.0, before 5.3.6 (fixed in 5.3.6); from 5.2.0, before 5.2.13 (fixed in 5.2.13); from 5.0.0, before 5.1.7 (fixed in 5.1.7); from 4.6.0, before 4.6.4 (fixed in 4.6.4); before 4.5.11 (fixed in 4.5.11)

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