๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-80211

MEDIUM 5.9

FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage

CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-916
Vendor frontaccounting
Product frontaccounting
Published Aug 27, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Affected Versions

FrontAccounting / FrontAccounting
0 โ‰ค 2.4.20

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/FA.md#finding-2-unsalted-md5-password-hashing-in-frontaccounting github.com: https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA github.com: https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA/blob/9464a3ffef03c139d9396e697bce9a0a9f131a72/includes/current_user.inc#L79 vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frontaccounting-through-2.4.20-use-of-unsalted-md5-for-password-storage

Credits

๐Ÿ” George Chen