---
id: CVE-2026-80211
title: >-
  FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted
  MD5 digests
summary: >-
  FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted
  MD5 digests. admin/users.php passes md5($_POST['password']) to add_user() and
  update_user_password(), admin/change_current_user_password.php does the same
  when…
severity: medium
cvss: 5.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-916
published: '2026-08-27'
updated: '2026-09-23'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-23T17:17:43.360'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80211'
references:
  - url: 'https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA'
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/FrontAccountingERP/FA/blob/9464a3ffef03c139d9396e697bce9a0a9f131a72/includes/current_user.inc#L79
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/FA.md#finding-2-unsalted-md5-password-hashing-in-frontaccounting
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frontaccounting-through-2.4.20-use-of-unsalted-md5-for-password-storage
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00244
epssPercentile: 0.15864
ingestedAt: '2026-08-29T21:42:35.158Z'
vendor: FrontAccounting
product: FrontAccounting
affected:
  - FrontAccounting <= 2.4.20
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-08-29T02:58:59.423145Z'
---

## Overview

FrontAccounting through 2.4.20 stores and verifies user passwords as unsalted MD5 digests. admin/users.php passes md5($_POST['password']) to add_user() and update_user_password(), admin/change_current_user_password.php does the same when a user changes their own password, the forgotten-password path in includes/current_user.inc hashes the newly generated password the same way, and authentication calls get_user_auth($loginname, md5($password)). The codebase applies no per-password salt and contains no call to password_hash(), password_verify() or any other adaptive hash, so identical passwords yield identical digests and an attacker who obtains the user table can recover plaintext passwords with precomputed lookup tables or high-rate GPU cracking.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.