{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00003355","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Pheditor: Authentication Bypass in Forced Password-Change Flow via Unverified Current Password","revision":2,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for pheditor/pheditor. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-3b2d63abed9eb392eb73f1d515ce0da2"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null},{"summary":"The original advisory lists fixed boundaries 2.0.8 for pheditor/pheditor. Confirm the publisher’s latest guidance.","source_ids":["sr-3b84c41e584e0eec0dfbe61e1f1ac577"],"action_type":"vendor_patch","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-07-24T21:54:26.000Z","value":"10 critical","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-3b2d63abed9eb392eb73f1d515ce0da2"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-3b2d63abed9eb392eb73f1d515ce0da2","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. 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Any non-empty value in `pheditor_password` is enough to reach the password-change form, and submitting `pheditor_new_password` / `pheditor_confirm_password` in the same request is enough to set an arbitrary new password and obtain an authenticated session — without ever proving knowledge of the current password.\n\n## Root Cause\n\n`pheditor.php` line 163:\n\n```php\nif (PASSWORD == hash('sha512', 'admin')) { // still default — force change prompt\n```\n\nThis checks whether the **stored** `PASSWORD` constant is still the default value. It does not check whether the **submitted** `pheditor_password` matches it. As a result, on any instance that hasn't changed the default password, the check passes regardless of what the client actually sends, and the subsequent password-change branch is reachable without authentication.\n\n## PoC\n\n```bash\nTARGET=\"https://victim.com/pheditor.php\"\n\n# Any non-empty value works here — password is never actually verified\ncurl -c /tmp/j.txt \\\n  -d 'pheditor_pas","public_affected_ranges":["< 2.0.8"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-3b84c41e584e0eec0dfbe61e1f1ac577"],"technology":"pheditor/pheditor","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Summary\n\nThe forced password-change flow, triggered when the stored password is still the default (`admin`), does not verify that the password submitted by the client actually matches the current password. Any non-empty value in `pheditor_password` is enough to reach the password-change form, and submitting `pheditor_new_password` / `pheditor_confirm_password` in the same request is enough to set an arbitrary new password and obtain an authenticated session — without ever proving knowledge of the current password.\n\n## Root Cause\n\n`pheditor.php` line 163:\n\n```php\nif (PASSWORD == hash('sha512', 'admin')) { // still default — force change prompt\n```\n\nThis checks whether the **stored** `PASSWORD` constant is still the default value. It does not check whether the **submitted** `pheditor_password` matches it. As a result, on any instance that hasn't changed the default password, the check passes regardless of what the client actually sends, and the subsequent password-change branch is reachable without authentication.\n\n## PoC\n\n```bash\nTARGET=\"https://victim.com/pheditor.php\"\n\n# Any non-empty value works here — password is never actually verified\ncurl -c /tmp/j.txt \\\n  -d 'pheditor_pas","public_affected_ranges":["ECOSYSTEM: introduced 0; fixed 2.0.8"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-03T10:03:26.560Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-24T21:54:26.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-07-24T21:54:24.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"Source facts changed; compare the preserved prior revision.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:10.706Z"},{"id":"NVI-00003355","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Pheditor: Authentication Bypass in Forced Password-Change Flow via Unverified Current Password","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g"],"plain_summary":"OSV carries this publisher advisory for pheditor/pheditor. This is an aggregated source copy; consult the original publisher and compare update dates.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"The original advisory lists fixed boundaries 2.0.8 for pheditor/pheditor. Confirm the publisher’s latest guidance.","source_ids":["sr-3b84c41e584e0eec0dfbe61e1f1ac577"],"action_type":"vendor_patch","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-3b84c41e584e0eec0dfbe61e1f1ac577","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub-origin advisory, CC-BY-4.0; OSV is an aggregate copy, not independent corroboration.","title":"GHSA-f25v-x6vr-962g","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database via OSV","observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:10.706Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-3b84c41e584e0eec0dfbe61e1f1ac577"],"technology":"pheditor/pheditor","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Summary\n\nThe forced password-change flow, triggered when the stored password is still the default (`admin`), does not verify that the password submitted by the client actually matches the current password. Any non-empty value in `pheditor_password` is enough to reach the password-change form, and submitting `pheditor_new_password` / `pheditor_confirm_password` in the same request is enough to set an arbitrary new password and obtain an authenticated session — without ever proving knowledge of the current password.\n\n## Root Cause\n\n`pheditor.php` line 163:\n\n```php\nif (PASSWORD == hash('sha512', 'admin')) { // still default — force change prompt\n```\n\nThis checks whether the **stored** `PASSWORD` constant is still the default value. It does not check whether the **submitted** `pheditor_password` matches it. As a result, on any instance that hasn't changed the default password, the check passes regardless of what the client actually sends, and the subsequent password-change branch is reachable without authentication.\n\n## PoC\n\n```bash\nTARGET=\"https://victim.com/pheditor.php\"\n\n# Any non-empty value works here — password is never actually verified\ncurl -c /tmp/j.txt \\\n  -d 'pheditor_pas","public_affected_ranges":["ECOSYSTEM: introduced 0; fixed 2.0.8"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:12:48.013Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-24T22:00:26.967Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-07-24T21:54:24.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:10.706Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}