Authenticated sensitive information disclosure in PHP Point of Sale version 19.0, by PHP Point of Sale, LLC.

published 2022-10-31 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-43592

cvss: 4.9; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits: 0; none known

The application was vulnerable to an authenticated information disclosure, allowing administrators to view unsalted user passwords, which could lead to the compromise of plaintext passwords via offline attacks.

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Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	4.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

PHP Point of Sale LLC PHP Point of Sale

Classification

Weakness

CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

References

themissinglink.com.au /security-advisories/cve-2022-40295
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-40295
NVD CVE-2022-40295

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