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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-58200 EUVD-2026-78825GHSA-h5x8-xp6m-x6q4

@jhb.software/payload-cloudinary-plugin: Arbitrary Cloudinary API Parameter Signing

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Payload Plugins is a collection of plugins designed to enhance Payload CMS. From 0.3.0 until 0.4.0, @jhb.software/payload-cloudinary-plugin deployments with clientUploads enabled expose POST /api/cloudinary-generate-signature, whose handler in cloudinary/src/getGenerateSignature.ts passes attacker-controlled body.paramsToSign directly to cloudinary.utils.api_sign_request without a key allowlist, collection policy, timestamp freshness check, or configured-folder enforcement. Any authenticated Payload user can obtain a valid Cloudinary HMAC-SHA1 signature for unauthorized parameters such as overwrite, type, notification_url, invalidate, folder, and public_id. The signature can authorize asset replacement, upload visibility changes, callbacks to attacker-selected URLs, cache invalidation, and uploads outside the intended folder. The client-visible Cloudinary API key is expected by the upload design, but the unrestricted server-side signature supplies the authorization value needed to complete these operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.4.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
jhb-software payload-plugins >= 0.3.0, < 0.4.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @jhb.software/payload-cloudinary-plugin >= 0.3.0, < 0.4.0 0.4.0 GHSA-h5x8-xp6m-x6q4

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