CVE-2024-56143 Strapi Allows Unauthorized Access to Private Fields via parms.lookup

What is CVE-2024-56143?

CVE-2024-56143 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in strapi, published on 16 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Strapi is an open-source headless content management system. In versions from 5.0.0 to before 5.5.2, the lookup operator provided by the document service does not properly sanitize query parameters for private fields. An attacker can access private fields, including admin passwords and reset tokens, by crafting queries with the lookup parameter. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.5.2.

Weakness: CWE-639

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56143?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including @strapi/core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Strapi Strapi.

How do I fix CVE-2024-56143?

Upgrade @strapi/core to 5.5.2 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-56143 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-56143 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in strapi

• CVE-2023-22894 Strapi Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Exploited High 7.2
• CVE-2023-22621 Strapi plugins vulnerable to Server-Side Template Injection and Remote Code Execution in the Users-Permissions Plugin Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-27263 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in Strapi Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-27664 Authorization bypass in Strapi Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-18818 Strapi allows unauthenticated attacker to reset admin password without valid reset token Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-495j-h493-42q2.