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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2017-5594 json

Pagekit Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

published 2017-01-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rp89-32rp-qpq2 , EUVD-2022-5208

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.0%
EPSS 7.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in Pagekit CMS before 1.0.11. In this vulnerability the remote attacker is able to reset the registered user's password, when the debug toolbar is enabled. The password is successfully recovered using this exploit. The SecureLayer7 ID is SL7_PGKT_01.

Patch / fix

  • packagist pagekit/pagekit 1.0.11

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-41143)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41143 PageKit 1.0.10 - Password Reset webapps, 2017-01-21
  • securelayer7.net https://securelayer7.net/download/poc/password-reset-vulnerability-exploit-ruby-pagekit-cms.rb.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist pagekit/pagekit
<1.0.11
1.0.11

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

References

Sources

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