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MultiFactor Authentication for SilverStripe can bypass MFA during password reset flow

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 29, 2026 in silverstripe/silverstripe-mfa • Updated Oct 29, 2026

Package

composer silverstripe/mfa (Composer)

Affected versions

< 6.0.0

Patched versions

6.0.0

Description

Impact

In CMS 5, the password reset flow let a user with multi-factor authentication enabled change their password and get a logged-in session before completing multi-factor authentication. Exploiting this requires access to the user's email account. CMS 6 is not affected.

References

@emteknetnz emteknetnz published to silverstripe/silverstripe-mfa Oct 29, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 29, 2026
Reviewed Oct 29, 2026
Last updated Oct 29, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

The product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-55186

GHSA ID

GHSA-68wq-phq7-p2vg

Source code

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