Authentication Bypass
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
How It Works
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications. Instead of cracking passwords through brute force, attackers manipulate the authentication process itself to gain unauthorized entry. This typically occurs through one of several pathways: exploiting hardcoded credentials embedded in source code or configuration files, manipulating parameters in authentication requests to skip verification steps, or leveraging broken session management that fails to properly validate user identity.
The attack flow often begins with reconnaissance to identify authentication endpoints and their underlying logic. Attackers may probe for default administrative credentials that were never changed, test whether certain URL paths bypass login requirements entirely, or intercept and modify authentication tokens to escalate privileges. In multi-step authentication processes, flaws in state management can allow attackers to complete only partial verification steps while still gaining full access.
More sophisticated variants exploit single sign-on (SSO) or OAuth implementations where misconfigurations in trust relationships allow attackers to forge authentication assertions. Parameter tampering—such as changing a "role=user" field to "role=admin" in a request—can trick poorly designed systems into granting elevated access without proper verification.
Impact
- Complete account takeover — attackers gain full control of user accounts, including administrative accounts, without knowing legitimate credentials
- Unauthorized data access — ability to view, modify, or exfiltrate sensitive information including customer data, financial records, and intellectual property
- System-wide compromise — admin-level access enables installation of backdoors, modification of security controls, and complete infrastructure takeover
- Lateral movement — bypassed authentication provides a foothold for moving deeper into networks and accessing additional systems
- Compliance violations — unauthorized access triggers breach notification requirements and regulatory penalties
Real-World Examples
CrushFTP suffered a critical authentication bypass allowing attackers to access file-sharing functionality without any credentials. The vulnerability enabled direct server-side template injection, leading to remote code execution on affected systems. Attackers actively exploited this in the wild to establish persistent access to enterprise file servers.
Palo Alto's Expedition migration tool contained a flaw permitting attackers to reset administrative credentials without authentication. This allowed complete takeover of the migration environment, potentially exposing network configurations and security policies being transferred between systems.
SolarWinds Web Help Desk (CVE-2024-28987) shipped with hardcoded internal credentials that could not be changed through normal administrative functions. Attackers discovering these credentials gained full administrative access to helpdesk systems containing sensitive organizational information and user data.
Mitigation
- Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — requires attackers to compromise additional verification factors beyond bypassed primary authentication
- Eliminate hardcoded credentials — use secure credential management systems and rotate all default credentials during deployment
- Enforce authentication on all endpoints — verify every request requires valid authentication; no "hidden" administrative paths should exist
- Implement proper session management — use cryptographically secure session tokens, validate on server-side, enforce timeout policies
- Apply principle of least privilege — limit damage by ensuring even authenticated users only access necessary resources
- Regular security testing — conduct penetration testing specifically targeting authentication logic and flows
Recent CVEs (37474)
Authorization bypass through User-Controlled key vulnerability in Essential Plugin WP Logo Showcase Responsive Slider and Carousel allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
X509AuthenticationProvider in Spring Web Services issues fully authenticated tokens from client certificates without enforcing Spring Security's account lifecycle checks, meaning disabled, locked, expired, or credentials-expired accounts can successfully authenticate. This affects all maintained release branches from 3.1.0 through 5.0.1 and was reported by VMware, the Spring project maintainer. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the bypass is meaningful in environments that rely on account-disablement as the primary deprovisioning control rather than certificate revocation.
Privilege escalation in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS on PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls and Panorama appliances allows an authenticated CLI administrator to perform operations at the root OS level, bypassing intended privilege boundaries through a missing authorization control (CWE-862). The risk is substantially gated by the requirement for existing administrative CLI access (CVSS PR:H), making insider threats and compromised admin credentials the primary real-world attack paths. No public exploits or confirmed active exploitation have been identified at time of analysis, and the vendor's own E:U supplemental metric reinforces the low exploitation urgency - though root-level OS access to a firewall represents a severe impact if the prerequisite is met.
Security control bypass in Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Agent for Linux enables a local, low-privileged attacker to route network traffic outside the VPN tunnel, undermining the core data-in-transit protection the agent is designed to enforce. Only Linux deployments are affected - Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS are explicitly not impacted. No public exploit code exists at time of analysis and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, but the CVSS 4.0 confidentiality impact is rated High due to the exposure of unencrypted traffic to untrusted network paths.
A person with access to a Mac may be able to bypass Login Window. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Improper Authentication vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms to gain unauthorized access.
Authorization bypass in Sharp (code16/sharp Laravel CMS package) versions 9.0.0 through 9.22.3 permits authenticated users lacking create permissions to invoke Quick Creation Command endpoints directly, circumventing the authorization layer to either retrieve entity creation forms or submit new records. The root cause is a missing `authorizationManager->check('create', $entityKey)` call in both the constructor and the `create` method of `ApiEntityListQuickCreationCommandController`, meaning the restriction enforced at the entity list level was not replicated at the command controller level. No public exploit exists and no CISA KEV listing is present; vendor-released patch v9.22.3 closes both vulnerable endpoints.
Host validation bypass in Litestar's AllowedHostsMiddleware allows unauthenticated remote attackers to circumvent the allowed-hosts allowlist by omitting the HTTP Host header and substituting a client-controlled X-Forwarded-Host header set to any whitelisted domain. Affected are all Litestar deployments (pip/litestar < 2.22.0) using AllowedHostsConfig that are reachable without a trusted reverse proxy stripping X-Forwarded-Host - a condition reflected in the CVSS AC:H rating. Publicly available exploit code exists demonstrating the bypass; no CISA KEV listing at time of analysis.
Input validation bypass in Fission (Kubernetes-native serverless framework) prior to version 1.25.0 allows authenticated users with Kubernetes API access to create HTTPTrigger resources with malformed or unsafe URL paths, achieving low-integrity routing manipulation. The RelativeURL and Prefix fields in HTTPTriggerSpec were validated only at the Fission CLI layer; when the post-CRD-modernization admission webhook was retired in favor of API-server CEL, no CEL rules were authored for those two fields - leaving a complete gap exploitable via kubectl apply or direct Kubernetes REST API calls. No public exploit code exists and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, but the bypass is straightforward for any cluster user with HTTPTrigger create rights.
Improper access control on the saved search ownership reassignment endpoint in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform allows a highly privileged authenticated user - one whose role contains the `edit_saved_search_owner` capability - to reassign saved search ownership to users outside their authorized scope. Affected versions span Splunk Enterprise below 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, and multiple Splunk Cloud Platform branches below their respective fixed builds. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the PR:H CVSS requirement confines risk primarily to insider threats or scenarios involving compromised privileged Splunk accounts.
Classic dashboard drill-down links in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform can be weaponized by low-privileged authenticated users to silently redirect victims to attacker-controlled external sites, enabling data exfiltration. The flaw stems from an incomplete URL scheme validator that recognizes only 'http://' and 'https://' prefixes, allowing protocol-relative URLs like '//attacker.com' to bypass the external-navigation warning dialog entirely. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV), but the attack requires only a low-privileged account and a single victim click, making it a realistic phishing vector in multi-tenant or large enterprise Splunk deployments.
Artifact pin decay in vLLM (< 0.22.0) allows pinned model deployments to silently load secondary artifacts - dynamic code modules, GGUF files, image processors, retrieval side weights, and same-repository subfolder configs - from unpinned or default HuggingFace Hub revisions, undermining supply-chain integrity guarantees. Operators who supply `--revision` or `--code-revision` to audit and lock a specific model version can unknowingly serve behavior-affecting components that fall outside the reviewed artifact set. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but seven discrete affected code paths across vllm's model loader and registry subsystems have been confirmed at commit 3795d7acf431980e62e738493f437ae2a51549da, with a fix released in vLLM 0.22.0 via PR #42616.
Roxy-WI 8.2.6.4 and prior exposes a broken object-level authorization flaw in its audit history endpoint, allowing any authenticated user to read any other user's full action audit trail. The GET /history/user/<server_ip> endpoint conflates the server_ip path parameter with a user identifier and performs no authorization check, meaning a guest account in an unrelated group can enumerate administrators' operational history including server IPs touched, configs deployed, and services restarted. No patch is available at time of publication; no public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified.
Missing authorization checks in Jenkins 2.567 and earlier (LTS 2.555.2 and earlier) expose user-specific configuration data to any authenticated user holding the Overall/Read permission. Authenticated low-privilege users can query the timezone setting of any Jenkins user account and enumerate the names of views configured within other users' 'My Views' personal dashboards, constituting an information disclosure weakness. No public exploit code exists and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis, placing real-world risk in the low-moderate tier primarily relevant to multi-tenant or shared Jenkins deployments.
Missing authorization enforcement in Jenkins allows low-privileged authenticated users to cancel build queue items they lack permission to view. Affecting Jenkins 2.567 and earlier (LTS 2.555.2 and earlier), this CWE-862 flaw breaks the expected access control invariant that Item/Cancel should be constrained by Item/Read visibility. No public exploit code exists and this vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity and network accessibility make it a realistic threat in multi-tenant Jenkins deployments where fine-grained RBAC is in use.
Missing authorization controls on Debusine's artifact relationship endpoints allow remote actors to create and delete artifact relationships without holding the necessary write permissions, affecting all versions from 0.2.0 through 0.14.5. The only implicit gatekeeping was visibility of the referenced artifacts - not modification rights - a CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) flaw that exposes both data integrity and limited confidentiality of build artifact metadata. No public exploit code exists and EPSS places exploitation probability at 0.01% (3rd percentile), reflecting the tool's niche deployment scope within Debian build infrastructure; the vulnerability is not confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV).
Authorization bypass in QNAP File Station 5 (versions 5.5.0 through 5.5.6.5243) allows a remote attacker with a valid low-privileged user account to circumvent intended access restrictions and reach files or operations they should not be able to access. The flaw was reported by QNAP itself with a CVSS 4.0 score of 8.6 reflecting high confidentiality and integrity impact, and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Note that the vendor description text references 'File Station 6,' but the CPE, affected version list, and fix data all point to File Station 5, which appears to be a typo in the advisory.
Unauthorized data access and action execution in QNAP QuMagie versions prior to 2.9.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authorization checks and interact with resources they should not be permitted to reach. The flaw is classified as a missing authorization issue (CWE-862) and carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 8.7 due to its network-reachable, low-complexity nature with no privileges or user interaction required. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but QNAP NAS appliances are historically high-value targets for opportunistic attackers.
Insecure direct object reference in BuddyPress 14.4.0's friends REST API exposes any authenticated attacker's ability to enumerate the complete friend list of any arbitrary user on the platform. The root cause is a missing ownership check in the `get_items_permissions_check` method, which validates only that the requester is logged in - not that they have authorization to view the target `user_id`'s social connections. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, but the low attack complexity and broad applicability to any authenticated user on affected WordPress installations make it a genuine privacy risk for communities using BuddyPress's social networking features.
Spring Data REST's Querydsl integration exposes arbitrary persistent entity property paths as request-parameter filter keys without first applying Jackson serialization customizations such as @JsonIgnore or @JsonView, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to probe and extract values of fields that developers intentionally suppressed from the API surface. All major release trains from 3.7.x through 5.0.x are affected across a broad Spring Boot installation base. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not listed in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the no-auth, low-complexity network vector makes this straightforward to abuse against misconfigured deployments.
Incorrect Authorization in Adobe Dreamweaver Desktop 21.7 and earlier enables arbitrary file system reads beyond the application's intended access scope when a victim opens a specially crafted malicious file. The vulnerability (CWE-863) results in a scope change - meaning access to files outside the component's normal boundary is achieved - with high confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability loss. No public exploit code has been identified and this CVE does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis, but the high confidentiality impact and low attack complexity make it a meaningful risk for environments where users routinely open externally sourced project files.
BitLocker's protection mechanism on Windows fails to enforce a critical authentication or verification step, permitting a physically present attacker to bypass full-disk encryption without credentials, a recovery key, or elevated privileges. Despite a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium) - moderated by the physical access requirement - the impact ratings are High across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, meaning successful exploitation grants complete access to encrypted data and the underlying system. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and Microsoft has released a patch via the MSRC update guide.
Security feature bypass in Microsoft Visual Studio Code allows a local unauthenticated attacker to circumvent a built-in protection mechanism through improper input validation, requiring user interaction to trigger. With CVSS 7.1 and scope-changed impact (S:C) yielding high confidentiality exposure, the flaw lets a crafted input cross VS Code's trust boundary on the local host. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.
Security feature bypass in Adobe Experience Manager (versions up to 6.5.24, LTS SP1, and 2026.04) allows a low-privileged authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized write access through improper input validation. Despite the 'Authentication Bypass' tag, the CVSS PR:L vector clarifies the attacker already holds a low-privilege account and uses this flaw to circumvent an additional security control - not to bypass authentication itself. Exploitation requires social engineering a victim to visit a maliciously crafted URL or interact with a compromised web page, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.
Security feature bypass in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) versions 6.5.24, LTS SP1, and 2026.04 and earlier allows a low-privileged authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized write access by exploiting improper input validation. Exploitation requires user interaction - a victim must be socially engineered into visiting a maliciously crafted URL or interacting with a compromised web page. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; the CVSS score of 3.5 (Low) reflects constrained impact limited to integrity only, with no confidentiality or availability exposure.
Security feature bypass in Microsoft Windows BitLocker allows an attacker with physical access to circumvent the drive encryption protection mechanism. Affected systems can have BitLocker-protected data accessed despite the encryption-at-rest control being enabled, undermining a core platform confidentiality boundary. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the vulnerability is reported by Microsoft (secure@microsoft.com) as a protection mechanism failure with high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
BitLocker drive encryption on Windows can be bypassed by a physically present, unauthenticated attacker, exposing protected volume contents with high confidentiality impact. Classified as CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure), the flaw undermines BitLocker's core threat model - data-at-rest protection - across a wide range of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server releases from 2012 through 2025. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and Microsoft has released patches for all affected versions; however, the physical access requirement means organizations with mobile or physically accessible systems should treat this as a higher operational priority than the CVSS score alone implies.
UI misrepresentation of critical information in Microsoft Bing Search for Android (versions below 33.3) enables unauthenticated network-based attackers to spoof content displayed to end users. The vulnerability (CWE-451) causes the application to render or present critical information-such as URLs, security indicators, or source attribution-in a misleading way, enabling deception attacks. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; however, the zero-privilege-required, low-complexity network vector makes it accessible to opportunistic attackers targeting users of the unpatched Android application.
Mark of the Web (MOTW) protection mechanism failure across a broad range of Windows client and server releases allows unauthenticated network-based attackers to deliver files that evade the Zone.Identifier security tag, bypassing downstream defenses such as SmartScreen and Office Protected View that depend on MOTW presence. User interaction is required to trigger the bypass, limiting automated mass exploitation. No public exploit code exists and CISA has not listed this in KEV; however, the breadth of affected Windows versions - spanning Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 through 2025 - gives this vulnerability significant surface area as a link in social-engineering attack chains.
Server-side request forgery in Microsoft Exchange Server allows an authenticated attacker with low privileges to coerce the Exchange server into making arbitrary outbound requests, resulting in disclosure of sensitive information and potential integrity impact across internal network resources. The CVSS 8.1 score reflects the high confidentiality and integrity impact from a network-reachable, low-complexity attack, though no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The vulnerability is tagged as an Authentication Bypass / SSRF, suggesting the SSRF primitive may be leveraged to bypass network-based authentication boundaries (e.g., reaching internal trusted endpoints).
Local file tampering via symlink/junction following in Microsoft .NET runtimes 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 allows a local unauthenticated attacker to redirect file operations to unintended targets, achieving high-integrity impact without requiring elevated privileges. The vulnerability stems from improper link resolution (CWE-59) before file access, enabling unauthorized modification of files the attacker would otherwise lack write access to. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing, but the low attack complexity (AC:L) and absence of privilege requirements (PR:N) make exploitation straightforward for any actor with local access.
Excel across multiple Microsoft Office product lines fails to properly enforce an internal protection mechanism, enabling a local attacker to bypass a security feature and access limited confidential data within the process context. Affected builds span Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, Office LTSC 2024, and Mac variants of Office. With a CVSS score of 3.3, this is a low-severity finding - no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires both local system access and deliberate user interaction.
mod_verto session state pollution in FreeSWITCH allows an authenticated WebSocket user to inject arbitrary userVariables into connection state before password verification completes, with those values persisting into any subsequent successful login on the same connection. All versions prior to 1.11.1 are affected via the check_auth userauth branch, which performs append-only state writes before the password comparison gate, and crucially does not close the connection on a failed compare. No public exploit has been identified and the vulnerability is not in CISA KEV, but the vendor explicitly labeled this release a critical security fix and strongly urged immediate upgrade.
Session eviction via unauthenticated sessid collision in FreeSWITCH mod_verto (all versions prior to 1.11.1) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker who knows a target client's session UUID to forcibly disconnect that client - terminating active calls and closing their WebSocket connection - by racing a crafted JSON-RPC first-frame before the authentication gate. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms full network reachability with no credentials required; the sole prerequisite is knowledge of the victim's session UUID. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Insufficient authentication (CWE-306) and input validation weaknesses across more than 25 NETGEAR router and mesh system models allow an adjacent-network attacker with low-level privileges to execute arbitrary commands and read sensitive configuration data, or alter certain device settings. The CVSS 4.0 vector confirms the attack is limited to adjacent network segments (AV:A) and requires low privileges (PR:L), with high confidentiality impact on both the vulnerable component and subsequent systems (VC:H, SC:H). No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and NETGEAR has self-reported the issue with patches available for all listed product lines.
Insufficient input validation across multiple NETGEAR Orbi mesh router models (RBR/RBS/RBE series) permits authenticated administrators on the local network to make unauthorized modifications to router software and functionality beyond their intended privilege scope. Affected are all firmware versions prior to V7.2.8.5 on most Orbi models and prior to V9.12.4.9 on the RBE97x series. No public exploit code exists and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog; NETGEAR self-reported and has released patched firmware addressing the flaw.
Insufficient input validation across 30+ NETGEAR router, range extender, and mesh networking models enables local network-adjacent modification of router software and functionality. The CVSS 4.0 vector assigns PR:N (no privileges required) and AV:A (adjacent network), yet the CVE description scopes the vulnerability to 'authenticated administrators' - the 'Authentication Bypass' tag supplied by NETGEAR suggests the input validation flaw may itself circumvent authentication controls, reconciling this apparent conflict. Integrity impact is rated High (VI:H) against the vulnerable system, meaning successful exploitation allows unauthorized firmware or configuration modification. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis (E:U), and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Unauthenticated local-network control of NETGEAR CAX30, RAX30, RAX5, and RAXE300 routers is possible through an authentication bypass rooted in improper input validation (CWE-20). An attacker already present on the local network segment - such as a guest Wi-Fi user, a compromised IoT device, or a rogue actor on the same LAN - can circumvent authentication and gain full administrative control, enabling arbitrary configuration changes, traffic interception, or persistent backdoor installation. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and NETGEAR has released firmware patches for all four affected product lines.
Insufficient input validation in the NETGEAR JR6150 AC750 router (firmware ≤1.0.1.26) enables authenticated administrators on the local network to make unauthorized modifications to router software and functionality beyond their intended authorization scope. The device reached End-of-Support in 2018 and will receive no security patches. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been identified; however, the device's permanent unpatched status makes risk acceptance or replacement the only long-term posture. The vulnerability was identified through firmware emulation and has not been verified on production hardware.
Integrity controls on multiple NETGEAR router firmware lines can be subverted by authenticated administrators on the local network through improper input validation (CWE-20), enabling privilege escalation beyond the intended administrative authorization boundary and permitting unauthorized modifications to router software and functionality. Twenty distinct NETGEAR SKUs across the R7000, RAX, RAXE, and XR1000 series are confirmed affected per ENISA EUVD-2026-35452, each with specific patched firmware thresholds now released by the vendor. No public exploit exists at time of analysis (CVSS E:U), and multiple CVSS constraints - adjacent-only attack vector, high complexity, and high privilege requirement - substantially limit the realistic threat population.
Improper access control in Fortinet FortiPortal versions 7.0.x (all), 7.2.0-7.2.8, and 7.4.0-7.4.7 enables an authenticated low-privilege attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain unauthorized read access to sensitive data. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/C:H) indicates low-complexity network exploitation by any authenticated user, resulting in high confidentiality impact with no integrity or availability loss. No public exploit identified at time of analysis based on CISA KEV, though publicly available exploit code exists per the CVSS temporal E:P metric, and Fortinet has issued an official fix.
Logseq's plugin sandbox can be escaped by a malicious plugin that injects arbitrary HTML event handler attributes into its host DOM container element, executing JavaScript in the privileged Electron renderer context. The attack is enabled by a disabled Content Security Policy in the host context, which removes the browser-level barrier that would otherwise block inline event handler execution. Only v0.10.15 has been confirmed vulnerable by CERT-PL; no patch has been released, and the vulnerability status of all other versions remains unknown. No public exploit code has been identified and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Improper authorization in TYPO3 CMS Backend API routes allows authenticated backend users to retrieve file metadata for files and folders outside their permitted file mounts or storages. Specifically, the ImageProcessController and LinkController endpoints failed to call checkActionPermission('read') before returning resource data, letting any backend-authenticated user enumerate file system structure beyond their assigned access scope. No active exploitation has been reported and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but the low-complexity network-accessible nature of the flaw makes it straightforward for any backend user to abuse.
Missing authorization in TYPO3 CMS's DataHandler allows authenticated backend users with low privileges to move content records across pages without holding edit permissions on the source page. The `moveRecord()` method in `DataHandler.php` validated destination-page access but omitted the symmetrical check on the source page, enabling unauthorized restructuring of the content hierarchy. Affected versions are 13.0.0-13.4.31 and 14.0.0-14.3.3; no public exploit or active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been identified at time of analysis.
Insufficient authorization in TYPO3 CMS's Recycler module allows authenticated backend users to restore soft-deleted records on pages or database tables they are not permitted to modify, resulting in unauthorized integrity impact across the content management system. Affected are TYPO3 CMS versions before 10.4.57 and multiple branches through 14.3.3, with fixes delivered via two upstream commits and documented under TYPO3-CORE-SA-2026-011. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack is network-accessible and requires only low-privilege backend credentials.
Unauthorized subscription cancellation in weDevs User Frontend WordPress plugin (all versions through 4.3.2) allows any authenticated subscriber to cancel any other user's subscription pack, including administrators. The flaw stems from a missing capability check on the user_subscription_cancel() function, meaning low-privileged users can invoke privileged actions. No public exploit code has been identified and this is not listed in CISA KEV, but the low attack complexity and broad attacker pool (any registered subscriber) make this a realistic insider or account-takeover amplification risk.
Weak password hashing in Siemens SINEC INS (all versions prior to V1.0 SP2 Update 6) exposes stored credentials to efficient offline recovery due to a static, hardcoded salt shared universally across all users and installations, combined with an insufficient iteration count. An attacker who has obtained high-privileged local access and can extract the password store can leverage the known static salt to construct targeted rainbow tables or run accelerated brute-force attacks, potentially recovering plaintext passwords and achieving unauthorized access to the application and downstream industrial network infrastructure. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the cryptographic weakness is deterministic - once hashes are obtained, the static salt eliminates per-user uniqueness and dramatically reduces attack cost.
Apache Answer's Timeline API endpoints through version 2.0.0 fail to enforce authorization, exposing deleted, private, and unapproved content - along with full revision histories - to any authenticated regular user. The vulnerability is an information disclosure flaw affecting all Apache Answer deployments (community forums, help centers, knowledge platforms) running 2.0.0 or earlier. No public exploit has been identified and no KEV listing exists; however, in community deployments where user accounts are freely self-registered, the authentication prerequisite provides limited real-world protection.
File system logic bypass in Huawei HarmonyOS allows a physically present, unauthenticated attacker to circumvent file system control logic, resulting in limited availability impact on the affected device. CVSS scores this at 2.4 (Low), reflecting the mandatory physical access requirement and constrained availability-only impact with no confidentiality or integrity exposure. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV at time of analysis.
Use-After-Free (UAF) in the HarmonyOS package management module allows a local attacker with high privileges to compromise service integrity. Successful exploitation requires high attack complexity and user interaction, limiting real-world exposure. The primary impact is integrity degradation (I:H), with minor confidentiality and availability effects; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing identified at time of analysis.
Use-after-free in the HarmonyOS package management module allows a locally authenticated, highly privileged attacker to corrupt memory and primarily impact service availability. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H) constrains the attack to local, high-complexity scenarios requiring administrative privileges, yielding a medium-severity score of 5.2. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, though the Authentication Bypass tag in the intelligence data warrants scrutiny given the high-privilege prerequisite implied by CVSS.
WPForms WordPress plugin versions prior to 1.10.0.5 allow unauthenticated remote attackers to forge PayPal webhook payloads and manipulate the payment state of arbitrary transactions due to absent webhook authenticity verification. The endpoint blindly processes incoming PayPal webhook events without validating their origin or integrity, enabling attackers to mark pending or failed payments as completed. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (7th percentile) reflects low current exploitation activity, though the business impact of fraudulent payment confirmation can materially exceed what the CVSS integrity score suggests.
Unauthorized data access and action execution in QNAP QuMagie versions prior to 2.9.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authorization checks over the network without authentication. The CVSS 4.0 score of 8.7 reflects high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity and no privileges required, though no public exploit identified at time of analysis and KEV listing is absent.
Spring Expression Language (SpEL) evaluation logic in Spring Framework 5.3.x through 7.0.x fails to enforce method invocation restrictions in read-only or restricted contexts, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers (CVSS PR:N, AV:N) to invoke arbitrary zero-argument methods and trigger unintended application logic. Scored LOW (3.7) with only availability impact per CVSS (A:L), though the 'Authentication Bypass' tag and CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) suggest the authorization bypass itself may have broader implications not fully reflected in the score. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing, but the wide version range across four active Spring Framework release trains represents significant ecosystem exposure.
Security bypass in Spring WebFlux's Kotlin Router DSL (CWE-284: Improper Access Control) allows remote unauthenticated attackers to circumvent access control rules in Spring Framework 5.3.0 through 5.3.48. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N) indicates network-reachable exploitation without authentication, though high attack complexity constrains opportunistic exploitation. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Unrestricted file upload in Dcat-Admin up to 2.2.3-beta allows remote attackers with high privileges - or potentially with authentication bypass - to upload arbitrary files via the editorMDUpload function at the /admin/dcat-api/editor-md/upload endpoint on the User Setting Page. The vulnerability stems from improper access control (CWE-284) on the editormd-image-file parameter, enabling upload of potentially malicious file types. Publicly available exploit code exists (CVSS E:P confirmed), though no active exploitation is listed in CISA KEV. The low CVSS 4.0 base score of 2.0 reflects constrained impact scope, but the 'Authentication Bypass' tag warrants additional scrutiny of the effective privilege requirement.
Unauthenticated remote access to the Source Connection Test endpoint in DTStack Taier up to 1.4.0 is possible because the `preHandle` method in `LoginInterceptor.java` does not invoke `tokenService.decryption(token)`, allowing any network-reachable caller to bypass authentication entirely. The same patch commit reveals that `ConnFactory.getSimpleConn()` also lacked JDBC URL sanitization, meaning an unauthenticated attacker could supply dangerous parameters such as `autoDeserialize` or `allowLoadLocalInfile` to a malicious MySQL-compatible server, elevating the real-world impact well above the assigned CVSS 5.5 Medium rating. Publicly available exploit code exists (CVSS E:P confirmed); no CISA KEV listing is confirmed at time of analysis.
Unintended data disclosure in SAP's Operational Data Provisioning RFC (ODP-RFC) modules stems from missing caller identification controls that fail to restrict invocation to permitted SAP-internal applications. Highly privileged customer or third-party applications can invoke these internal RFC modules outside their intended usage context, exposing sensitive operational data across a Changed scope boundary (S:C). No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this is not listed in CISA KEV; however, the High confidentiality impact combined with scope change warrants attention in SAP environments where ODP is exposed to external RFC consumers.
Privilege escalation in SAP MDG's Review Match Groups Application exposes restricted actions to low-privileged authenticated users due to missing authorization checks. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires only a valid low-privileged account over the network with no additional interaction, enabling unauthorized data modification. Impact is scoped to low integrity degradation - confidentiality and availability are unaffected - making this a moderate business risk primarily for organizations where MDG data integrity is compliance-critical. No public exploit code exists and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis.
Site isolation bypass in Google Chrome's Extensions subsystem prior to 149.0.7827.103 enables a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to defeat cross-origin security boundaries via a crafted HTML page requiring one user interaction. The root cause is CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) in the Extensions layer, meaning the Extensions subsystem fails to adequately validate untrusted input before acting on it across site isolation boundaries. EPSS is low at 0.02% (6th percentile), no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, and a vendor patch is confirmed at 149.0.7827.103.
Site isolation bypass in Google Chrome Extensions (versions prior to 149.0.7827.103) enables a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to escape cross-origin content boundaries via a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability stems from improper input validation (CWE-20) in the Extensions subsystem, producing a high integrity impact (I:H) with no confidentiality or availability loss per the CVSS vector. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been confirmed, with EPSS at 0.02% (6th percentile), consistent with a chained, high-complexity attack path.
Privilege escalation in FUXA's Scheduler API allows authenticated operator-level users to create or modify scheduled actions restricted to administrators, reaching PLC write and server-side script execution surfaces in SCADA deployments. The vulnerability (CWE-862) exists because POST /api/scheduler and DELETE /api/scheduler lacked the authJwt.haveAdminPermission() check applied to every other privileged write endpoint. Uniquely dangerous in OT environments: the scheduled-action model means an attacker does not need to maintain an active session - a repeating schedule persistently re-applies unauthorized setpoint or script changes even after manual admin remediation.
SQL injection in FUXA's TDengine DAQ storage connector allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read the complete historical PLC tag archive from any FUXA instance using TDengine as its storage backend. The flaw resides in `escapeTdString` (`server/runtime/storage/tdengine/index.js:10`), which doubles single quotes but fails to escape backslashes — enabling backslash-bypass injection via the `sids` parameter on `GET /api/daq` or the Socket.IO `DAQ_QUERY` event. Critically, enabling FUXA's own authentication layer does not close this gap: the Socket.IO handler carries no authorization check and the REST endpoint accepts guest-level requests by design, meaning the authentication bypass and SQLi are compounding issues. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; vendor-released fix confirmed in v1.3.2.
Cross-tenant contact tampering in WACRM (arnasdon/wacrm) before commit 73041bf allows any authenticated tenant user to read and modify contacts owned by other tenants by passing an arbitrary contact_id to the automation engine endpoint, which invokes a Supabase service-role client that bypasses row-level security. The flaw is an IDOR/authorization bypass (CWE-639) reported by VulnCheck; no public exploit is identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.
Missing authorization on the deleted user groups API in Devolutions Server enables authenticated low-privileged users to enumerate metadata of deleted user groups via crafted API requests, bypassing intended access controls. Affected deployments include versions 2026.2.4.0 and 2026.1.20.0 and earlier, as confirmed by the vendor advisory DEVO-2026-0015. No public exploit exists and CISA SSVC confirms no active exploitation, placing this at low operational priority despite its network-accessible attack vector.
Hard-coded credential exposure in SourceCodester's Online Examination & Learning Management System 1.0 (also distributed as Syllabus-aligned Learning Management and Examination System 1.0) allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exploit a statically embedded password ('CICT_2026') in the import_users.php file without any authentication or user interaction. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) confirms fully unauthenticated remote exploitation at low complexity, and the E:P exploit maturity modifier alongside the CVE description's explicit statement of public disclosure confirm that publicly available exploit code exists. Impact is constrained to low confidentiality exposure against the vulnerable component with no confirmed integrity or availability consequences.
Improper authorization in the imvks786 student_management_system PHP application allows authenticated low-privileged remote attackers to delete student records they are not authorized to remove via manipulation of the `del` parameter at the /see.php Student Deletion Endpoint. The vulnerability (CWE-285) stems from the application failing to verify that the requesting user holds sufficient privileges to perform the deletion action, effectively enabling horizontal or vertical privilege escalation within the data management scope. No public exploit identified at time of analysis via CISA KEV, though publicly available exploit code exists per the referenced GitHub issue disclosure.
Improper access control in imvks786's Student Management System PHP application exposes the /add.php Student Record Handler endpoint to unauthorized manipulation by authenticated remote attackers. The vulnerability, classified under CWE-284, allows a low-privileged user to perform actions beyond their intended authorization scope - consistent with the 'Authentication Bypass' tag suggesting role-boundary violations rather than full pre-auth access. Public exploit code exists per the GitHub issue report, though the CVSS 4.0 score of 2.1 reflects limited impact scope (low confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, no downstream system effect). The vendor has not responded to the coordinated disclosure.
Improper authorization in Mohammed-eid35's bank-management-system-springboot exposes the Transaction Endpoint to low-privileged authenticated remote attackers, enabling unauthorized access to or manipulation of financial transaction records belonging to other users. All versions up to commit 7b9bcc65ad7df3db29af71aed9bb500e5f24d948 are affected, with publicly available exploit code disclosed via GitHub issue #8. No patch has been released - the maintainer has not responded to the responsible disclosure report - making this an unresolved risk for any organization running this application.
Improper authorization in SourceCodester Inventory System 1.0 allows authenticated remote attackers to manipulate the ROLE parameter in the account creation API endpoint, bypassing role-based access controls to create or modify accounts with elevated privileges beyond what is authorized. The affected component is /Product_Inventory/api/users_handler.php, a PHP endpoint that fails to enforce server-side authorization on the ROLE argument during account creation. A publicly available proof-of-concept exploit exists (CVSS temporal E:P), lowering the barrier for opportunistic abuse. No patch has been identified at time of analysis.
Unauthenticated password reset bypass in SourceCodester Barangay Resident Profiling and Information Management System 1.0 allows remote attackers to reset user accounts to a known hard-coded credential via the `passsword_reset.php` endpoint. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) confirms no authentication or user interaction is required, and the E:P modifier confirms publicly available exploit code exists. Despite the VI:L integrity-only CVSS impact rating, the Authentication Bypass tag indicates the realistic consequence is full account takeover for any user whose password can be reset to the predictable hard-coded value 'password123'.
Incorrect authorization in Checkmk's User Messages dashboard widget exposes the dashboard creator's personal messages to any party possessing a valid public dashboard share token. The message-fetching endpoints resolve messages using the dashboard creator's identity rather than the requesting party's identity, meaning that direct API calls with a share token return the issuer's private messages regardless of whether the User Messages widget is actually present on the shared dashboard. All Checkmk deployments running versions prior to 2.5.0p5 that use the public dashboard sharing feature are affected. No public exploit has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV at time of analysis.
Authorization bypass in Weaviate's Static API Key Handler (versions 1.37.0-1.37.7) stems from the validateConfig function failing to reject duplicate API keys mapped to distinct users, allowing key-to-user resolution to resolve ambiguously. An authenticated low-privilege attacker holding a duplicated key can authenticate to Weaviate and be resolved as an unintended user identity, bypassing user-level authorization controls. Publicly available exploit code exists (GitHub issue #11392), though the CVSS 4.0 score of 1.3 reflects high attack complexity and the authenticated, misconfiguration-dependent nature of the attack - no public exploitation or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.
WordPress Seotheme contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading malicious files to the theme directory. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
WordPress Augmented-Reality plugin contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the elFinder connector that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP files. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Privilege escalation in Kushan2k student-management-system allows authenticated remote attackers to grant themselves administrator rights by manipulating the `isadmin` parameter in the Profile Update Endpoint. The `edit-admin` function in `controllers/AdminController.php` performs no server-side authorization check on this parameter, enabling any low-privileged account holder to self-elevate to admin. A publicly available exploit exists per VulDB and a GitHub issue disclosure; the vendor has not yet responded, and no patch has been released under the rolling-release model.
Improper access control in zilliztech deep-searcher up to version 0.0.2 allows authenticated remote attackers to bypass collection-level authorization in the vector database layer. The CollectionRouter.invoke function in collection_router.py lists and queries all vector database collections without filtering by the caller's authorized scope, meaning a low-privileged user can retrieve data from collections they should not have access to. No public exploit identified via CISA KEV, but publicly available exploit code (POC) exists per the GitHub issue tracker and the CVSS 4.0 E:P modifier confirms this.
Improper authorization in the BeikeShop e-commerce platform (versions up to 1.6.0.22) allows remote unauthenticated attackers to forge Stripe payment webhook callbacks and mark unpaid orders as paid. The flawed `callback` function in `plugins/Stripe/Controllers/StripeController.php` accepts arbitrary request bodies without verifying the Stripe-Signature header, and publicly available exploit code exists on GitHub. CVSS is 7.3 with EPSS not provided; the issue is not in CISA KEV but has a public POC, raising the practical risk for any internet-exposed BeikeShop store.
Authorization bypass in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 0.12.0 allows remote low-privileged authenticated attackers to access or manipulate sessions belonging to other users by supplying an arbitrary session title to the resume endpoint's `resolve_session_by_title` function without ownership verification. A public proof-of-concept exploit has been disclosed via GitHub Gist, and the vendor did not respond to pre-disclosure contact, meaning no patch is currently available. With CVSS 6.3 and a temporal exploit-partial modifier, this presents elevated practical risk in multi-tenant or shared-instance deployments where session isolation is a security boundary.
Improper authorization in OneDev's Pull Request Handler allows authenticated remote attackers to bypass issue access controls. The `canAccessIssue` function in the `/issues/` endpoint of theonedev/onedev versions through 15.0.5 fails to correctly enforce authorization, enabling a low-privileged user to access issues they should not be permitted to view or modify. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and a vendor-released patch is available in version 15.0.6.
Improper authorization in OneDev up to 15.0.5 allows low-privileged remote attackers to modify a project's default branch by manipulating the `project.defaultBranch` argument in the `/repositories/{projectId}/default-branch` REST API endpoint. The vulnerability is fixed in version 15.0.6. No active exploitation or public exploit code has been identified.
Improper authorization in theonedev OneDev versions up to 15.0.5 allows authenticated low-privileged users to manipulate the `project.parentId` parameter in the `/projects/` Parent Project Handler endpoint, bypassing access controls on project hierarchy operations. The CVSS vector (PR:L/AV:N/AC:L) confirms this is a network-exploitable flaw requiring only a low-privilege account with no user interaction. Although the base impact scores are uniformly low (C:L/I:L/A:L), in a self-hosted DevOps platform context - where projects may contain source code, CI/CD pipelines, and secrets - the real-world risk to sensitive deployments exceeds what the 6.3 CVSS score alone conveys. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis; an official patch is available as v15.0.6.
Improper authorization in theonedev OneDev up to version 15.0.5 allows authenticated remote attackers to bypass access controls by manipulating the `project.forkedFromId` argument in requests to the `/projects` endpoint. The flaw, classified under CWE-285, enables low-privileged users to perform actions or access project data beyond their authorization scope. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and a vendor-released patch (v15.0.6) is available.
Insecure Direct Object Reference in the Klamra Paycal for Aspaclaria WordPress plugin (all versions through 1.1.4) allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access to download invoices belonging to other customers by enumerating sequential WordPress post IDs via the unvalidated 'invoice_id' parameter. Exposed data includes full name, email address, phone number, order total, line items, and customer notes - constituting a significant billing PII breach for any e-commerce site running this plugin. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, but the low attack complexity and sequential enumeration method make mass harvesting of customer data straightforward for any authenticated user.
Authorization bypass in the Squirrly SEO WordPress plugin (all versions through 12.4.16) allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access to invoke privileged Squirrly cloud API operations reserved for administrators, including revoking the site's Google Search Console and Google Analytics integrations via the `api/gsc/revoke` and `api/ga/revoke` endpoints. The flaw stems from the plugin's failure to verify the `sq_manage_settings` capability before processing these state-changing cloud API calls, meaning any contributor can silently destroy critical SEO and analytics data connections without administrator knowledge. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Sensitive information exposure in LearnPress WordPress LMS Plugin (all versions through 4.3.6) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to extract plaintext passwords and unpublished course content via a crafted REST API request. The /wp-json/lp/v1/courses/archive-course endpoint accepts two query parameters - c_status=all and return_type=json - that together bypass a publish-only post_status filter and suppress a safe DISTINCT(ID) field override, triggering an unrestricted SELECT * fallback query against the WordPress posts table. Exposed data includes post_password in plaintext for password-protected courses, and post_content, post_author, and post_name for draft, private, and pending courses. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, though the unauthenticated, low-complexity attack vector makes it trivially scriptable at scale.
Information exposure in Essential Addons for Elementor (all versions ≤ 6.6.4) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to extract content from password-protected, private, and draft WordPress posts via the plugin's ajax_load_more AJAX endpoint. The root cause (CWE-639) is that user-controlled query parameters are accepted without enforcing WordPress native post-visibility access controls, bypassing the platform's built-in confidentiality model. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but the zero-authentication, zero-complexity attack surface on one of the most widely deployed Elementor add-ons makes this a realistic target for automated scanning campaigns.
Missing authorization in the Page-list WordPress plugin (all versions up to and including 6.2) allows authenticated contributors to read private and draft page content beyond their intended access scope. The [pagelist_ext] shortcode in the pagelist_unqprfx_ext_shortcode() function passes attacker-supplied post_status, post_type, and show_meta_key attributes directly into get_pages() and get_post_meta() with no capability check, and a critical amplification trigger - when no child pages exist, the query falls back to child_of => 0, broadening scope to every matching page on the entire site. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, but the low attack complexity and straightforward exploitation path via shortcode injection make this a meaningful insider-threat risk on sites with sensitive unpublished content.
Authorization bypass in the RSS Aggregator by Feedzy WordPress plugin (all versions through 5.1.7) allows authenticated contributors to perform privileged import management actions - including force-deleting all posts tied to any import job, creating and executing RSS imports, clearing error logs, and enumerating taxonomy terms and post meta keys. The attack surface is widened by a nonce leak: the required nonce is exposed to any user holding the edit_posts capability via the feedzyjs localized script injected into the WordPress block editor, eliminating the need for any separate token-theft step. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV listing is absent.
Arbitrary Media Library attachment deletion in the Charitable donation plugin for WordPress (versions through 1.8.11.1) is achievable by any authenticated user with Subscriber-level access or above via a two-stage IDOR exploit chain in the profile avatar update flow. The attack chains two weak points: Charitable_Data_Processor::process_picture() returns a raw user-supplied attachment ID verbatim when no file is uploaded, allowing an attacker to poison their own avatar user meta with any arbitrary attachment ID, which save_avatar() then blindly passes to wp_delete_attachment() without verifying that the target attachment belongs to the requesting user. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and exploitation is constrained to authenticated users on sites with active user registration.
Authorization bypass in the Alba Board WordPress plugin (all versions through 2.1.3) exposes private project card data to unauthorized access. Despite the CVSS vector assigning PR:L (low privileges required), the vulnerability description explicitly reveals a more severe exploitation path: the AJAX handler is registered under the wp_ajax_nopriv_ hook, and the required nonce is broadcast to all site visitors via wp_localize_script on any page rendering the [alba_board] shortcode - enabling fully unauthenticated access to private alba_card records including titles, descriptions, assignees, due dates, tags, and comments. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, though the vulnerable code path is publicly browsable in the WordPress plugin repository.
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