Advisory record · GHSA-hg7g-56h5-5pqr

CAPTCHA Bypass in WWBN/AVideo via Attacker-Controlled Length Parameter and Missing Token Invalidation on Failure

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 Apr 2026, 23:13 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
wwbn/avideoPackagist<=29.0No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-hg7g-56h5-5pqr · CVE-2026-40935 · PKSA-k6wt-ck7m-8514
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-804
Published
14 Apr 2026
Updated
5 May 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Wwbn/avideo versions up to and including 29.0 have a CAPTCHA bypass. The CAPTCHA generator accepts a length parameter from the query string without limits, so an unauthenticated attacker can force a one-character answer. Failed guesses also do not invalidate the stored answer, so the attacker can brute-force it in about 33 requests per session and pass the check on registration, password recovery, and contact endpoints. No fix is listed; the source suggests clamping the length parameter and consuming the stored answer on every validation attempt.

Written 3 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:25 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:25 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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