Umbraco.Engage.Forms Allows Unauthorized Access to Multiple API Endpoints

Description

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Umbraco Engage where certain API endpoints are exposed without enforcing authentication or authorization checks. The affected endpoints can be accessed directly over the network without requiring a valid session or user credentials. By supplying a user-controlled identifier parameter (e.g., ?id=), an attacker can retrieve sensitive data associated with arbitrary records.

Because no access control validation is performed, the endpoints are vulnerable to enumeration attacks, allowing attackers to iterate over identifiers and extract data at scale.

Impact

An unauthenticated attacker can retrieve sensitive Engage-related data by directly querying the affected API endpoints. The vulnerability allows arbitrary record access through predictable or enumerable identifiers.

The confidentiality impact is considered high. No direct integrity or availability impact has been identified.

The scope of exposed data depends on the deployment but may include analytics data, tracking data, customer-related information, or other Engage-managed content.

Patches

The vulnerability affects both v16 and v17. Patches have already been released. Users are advised to update to 16.2.1 or 17.1.1

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
Advisory on GitHub
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Published (advisory)
2026-02-27 18:35:57 UTC
Updated
2026-03-19 16:13:29 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-02-27 18:35:57 UTC
NVD published
2026-02-26

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.05% 16.71%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.5 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Credits

  • Amalie-Wowern (analyst)

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
nuget Umbraco.Engage.Forms >= 17.0.0, < 17.1.1 17.1.1
nuget Umbraco.Engage.Forms >= 16.0.0, < 16.2.1 16.2.1

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence