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CVE-2026-57493: FileRise: Remember-me auto-login uses stale admin role from token instead of current role

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-14 · updated 2026-10-20
• Weakness: CWE-613

Description

FileRise is a self-hosted web-based file manager with multi-file upload, editing, and batch operations. Prior to 3.16.0, FileRise stores the isAdmin flag in remember-me tokens and restores that stale value during automatic login instead of resolving the account's current role from users.txt. A user who was issued a token while an administrator can retain administrator access after demotion, and token rotation copies the stale privilege into each replacement token. Exploitation requires possession of the pre-demotion remember-me token. This issue is fixed in version 3.16.0.

Affected products

• error311 FileRise: before 3.16.0

References

• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/commit/f7114ca2a4e624238dda0d097a07ad6b05c11bb6
• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/releases/tag/v3.16.0
• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/security/advisories/GHSA-r55g-3hcc-6jx7
• https://github.com/error311/FileRise/security/advisories/GHSA-r55g-3hcc-6jx7

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