Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password Affecting idno/known package, versions <1.6.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.71% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-IDNOKNOWN-15282815
  • published15 Feb 2026
  • disclosed13 Feb 2026
  • creditLeandro

Introduced: 13 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-26273  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-640  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade idno/known to version 1.6.3 or higher.

Overview

idno/known is an A social publishing platform

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in the password reset process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to any user account by extracting the password reset token from a hidden HTML input field and using it to reset the account password.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1