CVE-2026-80211

FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Aug 27, 2026
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Reserved
Aug 25, 2026

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Description

FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted MD5 digests. admin/users.php passes md5($_POST['password']) to add_user() and update_user_password(), admin/change_current_user_password.php does the same when a user changes their own password, the forgotten-password path in includes/current_user.inc hashes the newly generated password the same way, and authentication calls get_user_auth($loginname, md5($password)). The codebase applies no per-password salt and contains no call to password_hash(), password_verify() or any other adaptive hash, so identical passwords yield identical digests and an attacker who obtains the user table can recover plaintext passwords with precomputed lookup tables or high-rate GPU cracking.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FrontAccountingFrontAccounting
  • 2.4.20 and earlierAffected

References

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