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CVE-2020-6949

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

A privilege escalation issue was discovered in the postUser function in HashBrown CMS through 1.3.3. An editor user can change the password hash of an admin user's account, or otherwise reconfigure that account.

Affected products

• HashBrownCMS Hashbrown Cms: through 1.3.3

References

• https://github.com/HashBrownCMS/hashbrown-cms/issues/327
• https://github.com/HashBrownCMS/hashbrown-cms/issues/327

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