GCVE Workshop - 22 September 2026 (14:00-18:00), Luxembourg Before The Vulnopticon Conference - Registration

GHSA-MWJC-5J4X-R686

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-20 21:55 – Updated: 2026-03-25 14:32
VLAI
Summary
AVideo has an unauthenticated decrypt oracle leaking any ciphertext
Details

Summary

The API plugin exposes a decryptString action without any authentication. Anyone can submit ciphertext and receive plaintext. Ciphertext is issued publicly (e.g., view/url2Embed.json.php), so any user can recover protected tokens/metadata. Severity: High.

Details

  • Entry: plugin/API/get.json.php is unauthenticated.
  • Handler: plugin/API/API.php get_api_decryptString() (lines ~5945–5966): php $string = decryptString($_REQUEST['string']); return new ApiObject($string, empty($string)); No APISecret or user check occurs before decrypting.
  • Public ciphertext source: view/url2Embed.json.php returns playLink/playEmbedLink (encryptString(json_encode(...))) to any caller.

PoC

  1. Obtain ciphertext: GET /view/url2Embed.json.php?url=https://example.com/video.mp4 Copy playLink.
  2. Decrypt without auth: ``` POST /plugin/API/get.json.php?APIName=decryptString Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

string= ``` Response contains the plaintext JSON (videoLink, title, users_id, etc.).

Impact

  • Any encrypted payload produced by the platform can be decrypted by anyone.
  • Leaks tokens/links intended to be confidential; enables replay and tampering where secrecy was assumed.

Mitigation

  • Require API secret or authenticated/authorized user for decryptString, or remove the endpoint.
  • Prefer one-way signatures (HMAC) instead of exposing generic decryption.
  • Rotate encryption keys/salts after patch to invalidate exposed ciphertexts.
Show details on source website

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "wwbn/avideo"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "26.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-33512"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-287",
      "CWE-312",
      "CWE-326",
      "CWE-327"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-03-20T21:55:12Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-03-23T19:16:40Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\nThe API plugin exposes a `decryptString` action without any authentication. Anyone can submit ciphertext and receive plaintext. Ciphertext is issued publicly (e.g., `view/url2Embed.json.php`), so any user can recover protected tokens/metadata. Severity: High.\n\n### Details\n- Entry: `plugin/API/get.json.php` is unauthenticated.\n- Handler: `plugin/API/API.php` `get_api_decryptString()` (lines ~5945\u20135966):\n  ```php\n  $string = decryptString($_REQUEST[\u0027string\u0027]);\n  return new ApiObject($string, empty($string));\n  ```\n  No APISecret or user check occurs before decrypting.\n- Public ciphertext source: `view/url2Embed.json.php` returns `playLink`/`playEmbedLink` (`encryptString(json_encode(...))`) to any caller.\n\n### PoC\n1. Obtain ciphertext:\n   ```\n   GET /view/url2Embed.json.php?url=https://example.com/video.mp4\n   ```\n   Copy `playLink`.\n2. Decrypt without auth:\n   ```\n   POST /plugin/API/get.json.php?APIName=decryptString\n   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n\n   string=\u003cplayLink ciphertext\u003e\n   ```\n   Response contains the plaintext JSON (videoLink, title, users_id, etc.).\n\n### Impact\n- Any encrypted payload produced by the platform can be decrypted by anyone.\n- Leaks tokens/links intended to be confidential; enables replay and tampering where secrecy was assumed.\n\n### Mitigation\n- Require API secret or authenticated/authorized user for `decryptString`, or remove the endpoint.\n- Prefer one-way signatures (HMAC) instead of exposing generic decryption.\n- Rotate encryption keys/salts after patch to invalidate exposed ciphertexts.",
  "id": "GHSA-mwjc-5j4x-r686",
  "modified": "2026-03-25T14:32:36Z",
  "published": "2026-03-20T21:55:12Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-mwjc-5j4x-r686"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33512"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/commit/3fdeecef37bb88967a02ccc9b9acc8da95de1c13"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "AVideo has an unauthenticated decrypt oracle leaking any ciphertext"
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.


Loading…

Loading…

Loading…

Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Loading…

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Loading…

Loading…

Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


Loading…