Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify AVideo instance with Live plugin active
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DeliverySend unauthenticated GET request with credentials to preauthorize endpoint
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ExploitNo rate limiting applied by server
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ExecutionCycle password guesses at machine speed
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PersistCorrect credential pair accepted
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ImpactAttacker gains authenticated session
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Brute-force prevention, rate limiting
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| Exploitation Conditions | The WWBN AVideo Live plugin must be installed and active - this is not a core AVideo vulnerability but is specific to the Live plugin component. The endpoint plugin/Live/api/preauthorize.json.php must be publicly reachable over the network. No authentication, special configuration, or user interaction is required; exploitation works against default network-accessible deployments with the Live plugin enabled. Limiting factors include: the attacker must know or enumerate valid usernames, and brute-force success depends on password strength. IP-based blocking or upstream rate limiting (CDN, load balancer) would constrain single-source attacks. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L) yields a score of 6.9 (Medium), reflecting the low-complexity remote unauthenticated nature of the attack but conservatively rating impact as low on both integrity and availability. This scoring is reasonable: the vulnerability does not itself exfiltrate data or execute code, but it materially enables account compromise through brute force. EPSS data is absent from available intelligence, limiting probabilistic exploitation likelihood assessment. Neither KEV listing nor public exploit code has been identified. The practical risk is elevated for deployments with weak or reused user passwords and where the Live plugin is active, since successful credential guessing would yield full account takeover. The email-flooding vector creates a denial-of-service condition against users and potentially against mail infrastructure. Overall, this is a genuine medium-priority issue - not a theoretical edge case - but unlikely to be a primary target for mass exploitation given AVideo's limited deployment footprint. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker sends a high-volume series of HTTP GET requests to /plugin/Live/api/preauthorize.json.php, cycling through common or previously breached passwords for a known username. Because no rate limiting or lockout exists, the attacker can programmatically iterate thousands of credential pairs per minute until a valid combination is accepted, or deliberately flood a targeted user with 2FA emails as a harassment or denial-of-service action. No exploit code is publicly known, but the attack is trivially implementable with standard HTTP tooling such as curl or Burp Intruder. |
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WWBN AVideo's Live plugin exposes an unauthenticated endpoint at plugin/Live/api/preauthorize.json.php that accepts credentials via HTTP GET with no rate limiting, enabling two distinct abuse vectors: sustained brute-force password guessing against any user account and uncapped triggering of two-factor authentication confirmation emails. All versions of AVideo are affected per CPE data, and exploitation requires no privileges or user interaction. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, though the attack surface is trivially low-complexity for any remote attacker.
RemediationAI
The primary fix is to apply the vendor-released patch documented in the GitHub security advisory at https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-gxxj-32wm-g48f - an exact fixed version number is not independently confirmed from available data, so operators should verify the current patched release tag directly. As an immediate compensating control, deploy WAF or reverse proxy rate limiting rules targeting the path /plugin/Live/api/preauthorize.json.php to throttle repeated requests per source IP; note this can be bypassed by distributed sources. Operators should also consider disabling the Live plugin entirely if it is not in active use, eliminating the attack surface without side effects. Enforcing strong password policies and account lockout at the application layer, if configurable, will reduce brute-force effectiveness in the interim. Passing credentials via GET should be addressed in any patch to prevent credential leakage in server logs.
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AVideo is an open-source PHP video platform developed by WWBN, affected across all versions per CPE cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. The vulnerable component is a JSON API endpoint in the Live plugin that handles pre-authorization credential checks. Credentials transmitted via HTTP GET are logged in web server access logs, proxy logs, and browser history, compounding exposure. The root cause is CWE-307 (Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts): the endpoint applies no throttling, lockout, CAPTCHA, or token-based submission controls, meaning the authentication flow can be replayed at machine speed. The 2FA email-flooding side effect further indicates the endpoint directly triggers notification infrastructure without submission guards.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Network-reachable, no privileges or user interaction; integrity and availability both low as the flaw enables brute force and email flooding but does not directly exfiltrate or destroy data.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
WWBN AVideo contains an unauthenticated credential submission vulnerability in plugin/Live/api/preauthorize.json.php that accepts credentials over GET without rate limiting. Attackers can submit correct credentials repeatedly to trigger uncapped two-factor confirmation emails and perform sustained password guessing attacks against user accounts.
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Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
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A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the unzipDirectory functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.6 and dev master commit
An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the salt generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed
Unauthenticated SQL injection in AVideo before 24.0.
OS injection vulnerability in World Wide Broadcast Network AVideo version before 12.4, allows attackers to execute arbit
A reflected cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the charts tab selection functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.
A cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the channelBody.php user name functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.6 and
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An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the userRecoverPass.php recoverPass generation functionality of WWBN AVi
WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable
AVideo is an open source video platform. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low
EUVD-2026-68229
GHSA-5fcm-q2vr-hhjh
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