CVE-2025-32432
Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond. Starting from version 3.0.0-RC1 to before 3.9.15, 4.0.0-RC1 to before 4.14.15, and 5.0.0-RC1 to before 5.6.17, Craft is vulnerable to remote code execution. This is a high-impact, low-complexity attack vector. This issue has been patched in versions 3.9.15, 4.14.15, and 5.6.17, and is an additional fix for CVE-2023-41892.
do firstApply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Can a WAF block it? Partly. Cloudflare publishes WAF a rule written for this CVE. Such rules block the known exploit requests and buy time, but attackers can change the request to get past them, so they do not replace the patch.
Cloudflare · 1 rule (Block) · since 27 May 2025
- Craft CMS - Remote Code Execution - CVE:CVE-2025-32432 · Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
Also consider: patch · enable the vendor rule in block mode · remove eval sinks · RASP
Based on WAF vendor rules published for this CVE. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.
Is CVE-2025-32432 being exploited?
Yes. CVE-2025-32432 appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed and reported. Treat it as active rather than theoretical, and patch it ahead of higher-scoring vulnerabilities that carry no exploitation evidence.
How severe is CVE-2025-32432?
CVE-2025-32432 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 10.0. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-32432?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-32432. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-32432 affect?
CVE-2025-32432 affects craftcms:craft_cms. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
- affected>= 3.0.0-RC1 and < 3.9.15
- affected>= 4.0.0-RC1 and < 4.14.15
- affected>= 5.0.0-RC1 and < 5.6.17
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.
public exploits
Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB · 1 Metasploit module · 15 GitHub proofs of concept · 1 Nuclei template
- Craft CMS 5.6.16 - RCE · webapps · 29 Apr 2026
- exploit/linux/http/craftcms_preauth_rce_cve_2025_32432 · exploit · excellent
- CraftCMS - Remote Code Execution · detection template · critical
- Sachinart/CVE-2025-32432 · 27 ★
- Chocapikk/CVE-2025-32432 · 10 ★
- CTY-Research-1/CVE-2025-32432-PoC · 8 ★
- P34NUT2/CVE-2025-32432-exploit-by-P34NUT · 8 ★
Listed so you can judge urgency, not as a recommendation to run anything. GitHub “proofs of concept” are unvetted: some are fake or carry malware. Exploit-DB marks the entries its staff verified.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- active
- automatable
- yes
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 28 Apr 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 25 Apr 2025Published
- 26 Apr 2025First public exploit or proof of concept · same day later
- 28 Apr 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation active · 2 days later
- 20 Mar 2026Added to CISA KEV (exploited in the wild) · 326 days (about 11 months) later
- 21 Mar 2026CVE record last updated · 1 day later
- 3 Apr 2026CISA remediation due date (US federal agencies) · 13 days later
- 2 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 214 days (about 7 months) later
also known as
- Exploitsensepost.com /blog/2025/investigating-an-in-the-wild-campaign-using-rce-in-craftcms/
- Linkgithub.com /craftcms/cms/security/advisories/GHSA-f3gw-9ww9-jmc3
- Linkgithub.com /craftcms/cms/commit/e1c85441fa47eeb7c688c2053f25419bc0547b47
- Linkgithub.com /craftcms/cms/blob/3.x/CHANGELOG.md#3915---2025-04-10-critical
- Linkgithub.com /craftcms/cms/blob/4.x/CHANGELOG.md#41415---2025-04-10-critical
- Linkgithub.com /craftcms/cms/blob/5.x/CHANGELOG.md#5617---2025-04-10-critical
- Linkcisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-32432
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, due date
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- Exploit-DB: published exploits
- Metasploit Framework: exploit and scanner modules
- Nuclei templates: detection templates
- PoC-in-GitHub: GitHub repositories that claim a proof of concept
- OSV: advisory aliases and downstream package versions
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.