CVE-2026-63223

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-07. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-51399 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

CodeIgniter is a PHP full-stack web framework. Prior to 4.7.4, the is_image and mime_in upload validation rules do not independently enforce a safe client filename extension, allowing a remote attacker to upload executable content when an application preserves the client filename and stores uploads in a web-accessible script-enabled directory. Applications are impacted when they validate uploads using is_image or mime_in without an independent safe extension check (such as ext_in on patched versions), save uploaded files using the client-supplied filename, and place uploads in a web-accessible directory where PHP files can execute. This issue is fixed in version 4.7.4.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
57th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 31, 2026

Last Modified

September 8, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 9, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_release.
GitHub release Patch Available

CodeIgniter 4.7.4

Patch available: codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4 v4.7.4

https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/releases/tag/v4.7.4
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit b6e9a4fa1dca (codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4)

Patch available: codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4 v4.7.4 (contains commit b6e9a4fa1dca)

https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/commit/b6e9a4fa1dca2df3d3f261bdf61532df8c6420aa
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Uploaded file extension validation bypass in `is_image` and `mime_in` rules · Advisory · codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4 · GitHub

https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgniter4/security/advisories/GHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-63223(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
composercodeigniter4/framework @ 4.7.4 (fixes < 4.7.4)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Packagist(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
codeigniter4/framework4.0.0 ... v4.7.3 (78 versions)
  • every version up to 4.7.4: fixed in 4.7.4
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 43× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 206 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 106 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 03:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-13 03:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 57th percentile
  4. 2026-11-12 00:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-12 00:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-11-11 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 57th percentile
  7. 2026-11-10 22:45 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-10 22:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-10 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  10. 2026-11-09 20:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-09 20:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-09 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  13. 2026-11-08 17:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-08 17:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-11-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
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  17. 2026-11-07 15:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-07 15:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-06 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  20. 2026-11-06 14:55 UTCOSV refresh
  21. 2026-11-06 13:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-11-06 13:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-11-05 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  24. 2026-11-05 11:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-11-05 11:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-11-04 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  2. 2026-11-04 09:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-04 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-03 16:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  5. 2026-11-03 06:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-03 06:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-02 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  8. 2026-11-02 04:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-02 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  11. 2026-11-01 07:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mmj4-63m4-r6h5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-01 07:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  14. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCshinthink/CVE-2026-63223
    Published Aug 4, 2026

    CVE-2026-63223 — CI4RCE: CodeIgniter 4 is_image/mime_in File Upload RCE. Magic bytes bypass (getExtension vs getClientExtension). CVSS 9.8 | CWE-434 | CI4 < 4.7.4

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCimbas007/CVE-2026-63223-POC
    Published Aug 3, 2026

    CVE-2026-63223 PoC — CodeIgniter 4 is_image/mime_in File Upload RCE (CVSS 9.8). Unauthenticated remote code execution via unrestricted file upload bypass using image magic bytes. Fixed in v4.7.4.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-63223?
CVE-2026-63223 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 31, 2026. CodeIgniter is a PHP full-stack web framework. Prior to 4.7.4, the is_image and mime_in upload validation rules do not independently enforce a safe client filename extension, allowing a remote attacker to upload executable content when an application preserves the client filename and stores uploads…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-63223 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-63223 was published on July 31, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-63223 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-63223 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (57th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-63223?
CVE-2026-63223 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-63223?
A fix for CVE-2026-63223 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-63223 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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