Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data Affecting pheditor/pheditor package, versions <2.0.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PHEDITORPHEDITOR-18307257
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed24 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jul 2026

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-1392  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pheditor/pheditor to version 2.0.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data in the password change process when the stored password remains at its default value and the submitted password is not verified. An attacker can gain unauthorized access and set a new administrator password by submitting any non-empty value for the password fields.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1