CVE-2026-72658 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

What is CVE-2026-72658?

CVE-2026-72658 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 13 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-72658?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2026-72658?

Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.19.20 or 9.4.5.

Is CVE-2026-72658 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72658 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana

• CVE-2019-7609 Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-25015 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-37288 Deserialization in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2023-31415 Code injection in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2018-17245 Information disclosure in Kibana Critical 9.8

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as BIT-elk-2026-72658, BIT-kibana-2026-72658, GHSA-55cc-rgfq-623v, MINI-4g62-2847-hf9m, MINI-5pxc-c2q5-j4x7, MINI-6xr7-p7w3-hw2w and 3 more.