CVE-2026-103476
Description
yii2-starter-kit through 4.2.0 fails to validate article publication status in the attachment-download endpoint, allowing unauthenticated attackers to download files from draft articles. Attackers can enumerate sequential attachment identifiers to retrieve files from unpublished articles without authentication or authorization checks.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/yii-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit
- https://github.com/yii-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit/blob/cc2c451e8c959c7300b04efea597706a38609f58/frontend/controllers/ArticleController.php#L69
- https://github.com/yii-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit/issues/797
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/yii2-starter-kit-through-4.2.0-unauthorized-file-download-via-attachment-download
CWEs
CWE-639
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.