CVE-2025-4643: Payload does not invalidate JWTs after log out

August 29, 2025 (updated November 10, 2025)

Payload uses JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication. After log out JWT is not invalidated, which allows an attacker who has stolen or intercepted token to freely reuse it until expiration date (which is by default set to 2 hours, but can be changed).

This issue has been fixed in version 3.44.0 of Payload.

References

cert.pl/en/posts/2025/08/CVE-2025-4643
github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v66-m237-hwf7
github.com/payloadcms/payload
github.com/payloadcms/payload/commit/26d709dda6e512ce347557eaa2057db6e0cbf809
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4643

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