Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
The silverstripe/mfa Packagist package is vulnerable in versions before 6.0.0, in the CMS 5 password reset flow. A user with multi-factor authentication enabled could reset their password and obtain a logged-in session without completing MFA, but the attacker would need access to the user's email account. The fix is included in version 6.0.0, so upgrade to that release.
Not analysed yet
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | Medium | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N | CNA (GitHub_M) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0028, the 20th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 1 Jan 2026, 00:00 UTC Confirmed by Packagist
- 29 Oct 2026, 16:32 UTC Confirmed by GitHub Advisory Database
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:53 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:53 UTC Confirmed by OSV
- 3 Nov 2026, 20:48 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
- 3 Nov 2026, 21:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-68wq-phq7-p2vg
- OSV: GHSA-68wq-phq7-p2vg
- github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-mfa/security/advisories/GHSA-68wq-phq7-p2vg
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/silverstripe/mfa/CVE-2026-55186.yaml
- github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-mfa
- github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-mfa/releases/tag/6.0.0
- www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/cve-2026-55186