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Low · 2.6 CVE-2026-55824 EUVD-2026-51613GHSA-3mr9-p497-58f6

Contao crawler leaks auth credentials to external hosts

Published Jul 31, 2026 · Updated Jul 31, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions 4.13.40 through 5.3.46 and 5.7.0-RC1 through 5.7.6, the crawler leaks auth credentials to external hosts. Contao's crawler tries to prevent confidential HTTP client options from being sent to external domains by creating a scoped client: full options for root page origins, cleaned options for everything else. The cleaner removes Cookie and Authorization headers, but it removes the non-Symfony option names basic_auth and bearer_auth instead of Symfony HttpClient's real auth_basic and auth_bearer options. When contao.crawl.default_http_client_options contains Basic or Bearer authentication for a protected staging/production site, those credentials remain in the "clean" client used for external links or configured additional URIs. An attacker who can get an external URL crawled, for example through a link on a crawled page while the broken-link checker is enabled, can receive the crawler credentials. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.3.47 and 5.7.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
contao contao >= 4.13.40, < 5.3.47, >= 5.7.0-RC1, < 5.7.7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist contao/contao >= 4.13.0, < 5.3.47 5.3.47 GHSA-3mr9-p497-58f6
Packagist contao/contao >= 5.4.0, < 5.7.7 5.7.7 GHSA-3mr9-p497-58f6
Packagist contao/core-bundle >= 4.13.0, < 5.3.47 5.3.47 GHSA-3mr9-p497-58f6
Packagist contao/core-bundle >= 5.4.0, < 5.7.7 5.7.7 GHSA-3mr9-p497-58f6

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