---
title: "CVE-2026-105859: Payload - Broken Access Control"
description: "Payload < 3.90.0 and canary < 4.0.0-canary.34 contain a broken access control vulnerability caused by lack of enforcement on collection or field-level access control when orderable is enabled, letting attackers modify collection documents remotely, exploit requires orderable enabled on collection or join field."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-105859/
---

# CVE-2026-105859 Payload - Broken Access Control

Payload < 3.90.0 and canary < 4.0.0-canary.34 contain a broken access control vulnerability caused by lack of enforcement on collection or field-level access control when orderable is enabled, letting attackers modify collection documents remotely, exploit requires orderable enabled on collection or join field.

CVSS base score 9.8 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.35% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105859)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Data Tampering

CVSS vector

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

Published

6 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-639](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/639.html)

## Vendor fix

Upgrade to version 3.90.0 or 4.0.0-canary.34 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105859](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105859)
- [https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/36fa9af73dd04fa59f4b4a06d11454538c4c1409](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/36fa9af73dd04fa59f4b4a06d11454538c4c1409)
- [https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/releases/tag/v3.90.0)
- [https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-f7hx-52q9-hcrf](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/security/advisories/GHSA-f7hx-52q9-hcrf)

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