Weakness (CWE)
CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.
How to prevent it (6 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Make sure that all input supplied by the user to the password recovery mechanism is thoroughly filtered and validated.
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Architecture and Design
Do not use standard weak security questions and use several security questions.
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Architecture and Design
Make sure that there is throttling on the number of incorrect answers to a security question. Disable the password recovery functionality after a certain (small) number of incorrect guesses.
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Architecture and Design
Require that the user properly answers the security question prior to resetting their password and sending the new password to the e-mail address of record.
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Architecture and Design
Never allow the user to control what e-mail address the new password will be sent to in the password recovery mechanism.
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Architecture and Design
Assign a new temporary password rather than revealing the original password.
Source: MITRE CWE-640
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Critical 9.4
Improper Access Control in Birebirsoft's Sufirmam
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts, Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Birebirsoft Software and Technology Solutions Sufirmam allows Brute Force, Password Recovery Exploitation. This issue affects S…
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Critical 9.8
Beehive Forum - Account Takeover
Beehive Forum 1.5.2 contains a host header injection vulnerability in the forgot password functionality that allows attackers to manipulate password reset requests. Attackers can inject a malicious host header to intercept password reset tokens and change vic…
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Critical 10.0CVE-2025-63314 Public exploit
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Critical 9.3
Emby Server allows attackers to gain administrative server access without preconditions
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Critical 9.8CVE-2025-50433 Public exploit
An issue was discovered in imonnit.com (2025-04-24) allowing malicious actors to gain escalated privileges via crafted …
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Critical 9.8
Hundred Plus｜EIP Plus - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism
EIP Plus developed by Hundred Plus has a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism vulnerability, allowing unauthenticated remote attacker to predict or brute-force the 'forgot password' link, thereby successfully resetting any user's password.
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Critical 9.8
Daikin Europe N.V Security Gateway Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Daikin Europe N.V Security Gateway is vulnerable to an authorization bypass through a user-controlled key vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication. An unauthorized attacker could access the system without prior credentials.
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Critical 9.8
WordPress Material Dashboard plugin <= 1.4.6 - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Hossein Material Dashboard material-dashboard.This issue affects Material Dashboard: from n/a through <= 1.4.6.
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Critical 9.8
An issue was discovered in /Code/Websites/DanpheEMR/Controllers/Settings/SecuritySettingsController.cs in Danphe Health…
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Critical 9.8
flask-boilerplate through a170e7c allows account takeover via the password reset feature because SERVER_NAME is not con…
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Critical 9.8
JobCenter through 7e7b0b2 allows account takeover via the password reset feature because SERVER_NAME is not configured …
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Critical 9.8CVE-2025-6216 EPSS 48%
Allegra calculateTokenExpDate Password Recovery Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Allegra calculateTokenExpDate Password Recovery Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of Allegra. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The sp…
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Critical 9.8
WordPress PSW Front-end Login & Registration plugin <= 1.13 - Broken Authentication Vulnerability
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in Gilblas Ngunte Possi PSW Front-end Login & Registration psw-login-and-registration allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects PSW Front-end Login & Registration: from n/a t…
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Critical 9.8
WordPress Paid Videochat Turnkey Site plugin <= 7.3.11 - Broken Authentication Vulnerability
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in videowhisper Paid Videochat Turnkey Site ppv-live-webcams allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects Paid Videochat Turnkey Site: from n/a through <= 7.3.11.
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Critical 9.8
AdForest <= 5.1.6 - Privilege Escalation via Password Reset/Account Takeover
The AdForest theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the adforest_…
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Critical 9.8
CrushFTP 10 before 10.8.3 and 11 before 11.2.3 mishandles password reset, leading to account takeover.
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Critical 9.4
Ruijie Reyee OS Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Ruijie Reyee OS versions 2.206.x up to but not including 2.320.x contains a weak mechanism for its users to change their passwords which leaves authentication vulnerable to brute force attacks.
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Critical 9.8
Contest Gallery <= 24.0.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation/Account Takeover
The Contest Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 24.0.7. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes …
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Critical 9.8
An issue in Olive VLE allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information via the reset password function.
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Critical 10.0
Unauthenticated Password Reset
The password recovery mechanism for the forgotten password in Riello Netman 204 allows an attacker to reset the admin password and take over control of the device.This issue affects Netman 204: through 4.05.
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Critical 9.1
The password-reset mechanism in the Forgot Password functionality in R-HUB TurboMeeting through 8.x allows unauthentica…
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Critical 9.8
Shenzhen Guoxin Synthesis image system before 8.3.0 allows unauthorized password resets via the resetPassword API.
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Critical 9.8
ifm: moneo prone to weak password recovery mechanism
An unauthenticated remote attacker can change the admin password in a moneo appliance due to weak password recovery mechanism.
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Critical 10.0
Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in GitLab
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.1 prior to 16.1.6, 16.2 prior to 16.2.9, 16.3 prior to 16.3.7, 16.4 prior to 16.4.5, 16.5 prior to 16.5.6, 16.6 prior to 16.6.4, and 16.7 prior to 16.7.2 in which user account passwor…
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Critical 9.8
Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Milesight Network Video Recorder (NVR)
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Critical 9.8
An insecure password reset issue discovered in MEGAFEIS, BOFEI DBD+ Application for IOS & Android v1.4.4 service via in…
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Critical 9.8
COMFAST (Shenzhen Sihai Zhonglian Network Technology Co., Ltd) CF-WR623N Router firmware V2.3.0.1 and before is vulnera…
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Critical 9.8
Weak Password Recovery in ifm moneo appliance
In IFM Moneo Appliance with version up to 1.9.3 an unauthenticated remote attacker can reset the administrator password by only supplying the serial number and thus gain full control of the device.
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Critical 9.8
An issue was discovered in BACKCLICK Professional 5.9.63. Due to insecure design or lack of authentication, unauthentic…
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Critical 9.8
A CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability exists that could cause unauthorized a…
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Critical 9.8
A CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability exists in PowerLogic PM55xx, PowerLogi…
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Critical 9.8
Mattermost Server password reset email requests can be sent to attacker-provided email addresses
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 4.0.0, 3.10.2, and 3.9.2. A password-reset request was sometime sent to an attacker-provided e-mail address.
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Critical 9.8
Django Potential account hijack via password reset form
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Critical 9.8
Strapi allows unauthenticated attacker to reset admin password without valid reset token
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Critical 9.8
Craft CMS possibility of brute force attempts
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Critical 9.8
Contao Does Not Invalidate Existing Sessions When Password Changes
Contao before 3.5.39 and 4.x before 4.7.3 has a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for a Forgotten Password.
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Critical 9.8
Cloud Foundry Runtime has Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
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