CVE-2026-43621: SimpleMachines SMF

Simple Machines Forum < 2.1.7 Authorization Confusion via Profile::load()

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.0036 · 30th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 26 Aug 2026, 21:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
SimpleMachines	SMF pkg:github/SimpleMachines/SMF	affected 2.1.7 and earlier semver unaffected 6f0dc61958aa86a4b436a222f6176812ed5bbb95 git Other versions: affected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-43621

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-863

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.6	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
8.1	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0036, the 30th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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