CriticalCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-82531 (CVSS 9.2)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 6, 2026Risk 50/100

Smarty before 4.5.8 and 5.x before 5.8.5 contains a code injection vulnerability where the top-level nocache_hash is never restored during extends:/multi-component template inheritance, leaving it null. Attackers can supply assigned data containing a forged SmartyNocache marker that is copied verbatim into the regenerated PHP cache file, executing arbitrary PHP on include for remote code execution.

Technical details

CVSS

9.2

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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