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CVE-2023-30843

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-30843 affects Payload CMS versions prior to 1.7.0, allowing authenticated users to brute-force and discover values of hidden or restricted fields within documents they can access. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and can lead to high confidentiality impact, as sensitive data could be exposed. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:payloadcms:payload:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: payloadFixed in: 1.7.0
github_advisoryworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-35jj-vqcf-f2jfhigh

Hidden fields can be leaked on readable collections in Payload

Apr 26, 2023

References

github.com / payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v1.7.0
Release Notes
github.com / payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-35jj-vqcf-f2jf
MitigationVendor Advisory