CVE-2026-34748
Impact
A stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability existed in the admin panel. An authenticated user with write access to a collection could save content that, when viewed by another user, would execute in their browser.
Consumers are affected if ALL of these are true:
- Payload version < v3.78.0
- At least one collection with versions enabled
- An authenticated user has
createorupdateaccess to that collection
Patches
This vulnerability has been patched in v3.78.0. Output encoding has been added to prevent user-supplied content from being interpreted as markup.
Users should upgrade to v3.78.0 or later.
Workarounds
If consumers cannot upgrade immediately:
- Restrict
createandupdateaccess to versioned collections to trusted roles only.
Package Versions Affected
Automatically patch vulnerabilities without upgrading
CVSS Version



Related Resources
References
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-mmxc-95ch-2j7c, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34748, https://github.com/payloadcms/payload
