CVE-2026-75592

### TL;DR This vulnerability affects all Kirby sites that are deployed in a way that their `index` root on the server is next to a second directory that is read-accessible to PHP and shares the same name prefix (such as the site with the index root `/var/www/site` being next to `/var/www/site2`). It was possible to create and access thumbnails from media files within such sibling directories that have a valid thumbnail configuration (JSON job file). This can affect staging sites, site backups or other internal sites. ---- ### Introduction A path traversal (also known as directory traversal) vulnerability occurs when untrusted input is used to build a filesystem path without properly confining the result to an intended base directory. By injecting sequences such as `../`, an attacker can escape that directory and reach files elsewhere on the server. ### Affected components Kirby's media handler processes requests for files in the `media` directory that have not been generated yet. It parses the provided path and finds the correct file or asset to generate a thumbnail of. Each thumbnail needs to have a prepared job file (a metadata file with file extension `.json`) in order to allow the media handler to generate a thumbnail. The media handler uses filesystem containment checks in several places that are supposed to prevent breakout of the `media` and `index` roots of the site. ### Impact In affected releases, the containment checks were incomplete and did not cover the case of a sibling directory next to the containment directory that starts with the same prefix. E.g. a directory `site2` passed the containment check of directory `site`. This allowed attackers to access media files with prepared job files that are stored within such sibling directories of the site's `index` root, opening the potential for information leaks from sensitive files stored within them, and deleting the job file in the process. ### Patches The problem has been patched in [Kirby 4.