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.
Published: 2026-08-27
Score: 8.2 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 Use of Unsalted MD5 for Password Storage
First Time appeared Frontaccounting
Frontaccounting frontaccounting
Weaknesses CWE-916
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:frontaccounting:frontaccounting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Frontaccounting
Frontaccounting frontaccounting
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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Frontaccounting Frontaccounting
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-27T14:50:31.799Z

Reserved: 2026-08-25T23:15:39.156Z

Link: CVE-2026-80211

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-27T17:20:50.733

Modified: 2026-08-27T17:20:50.733

Link: CVE-2026-80211

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-916

    Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort