CVE-2026-53953
CriticalCVSS 9.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk26th percentile - higher than 26% of all known CVEs
Summary
GetSimple CMS is a content management system (CMS), and GetSimple CMS CE is the community edition of that CMS. In version 3.3.22, the password reset endpoint can be accessed without authentication. When a reset request is submitted for an existing user, the application generates a new temporary password and immediately stores its hash as the user's new password. The temporary password is generated using PHP rand() seeded with microtime(). Because this seed is time-based and has a limited effective search space, an attacker can generate possible reset password candidates. Since the admin login endpoint does not enforce rate limiting or account lockout, these candidates can be tested online until the correct password is found. Successful exploitation may lead to administrator account takeover. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Risk Assessment
Successful exploitation may lead to administrator account takeover. The lack of publicly available patches at the time of publication increases the risk.
Recommendation
At the time of publication there are no publicly available patches; monitor for a fix and apply it as soon as it is released, and consider restricting access to the password reset endpoint.
Other vulnerabilities in GetSimple CMS
See all- CVE-2017-8081High
Poor cryptographic salt initialization in admin/inc/template_functions.php in GetSimple CMS 3.3.13 allows a network attacker to escalate privileges to an arbitrary user or conduct CSRF attacks via calculation of a session cookie or CSRF nonce.
- CVE-2014-8722High
GetSimple CMS version 3.3.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via direct requests to specific XML files.
- CVE-2026-53952Critical
GetSimple CMS (v3.4.0a and below) and GetSimple CMS CE (v3.3.22 and below) contain a logic flaw allowing unauthenticated attackers to create a new administrator account. The automated control that deletes admin/setup.php after installation is neutralized by a self-exclusion bug, leaving the setup script accessible. As of publication, no patched versions are available.
- CVE-2026-71426High
In GetSimple CMS and GetSimple CMS CE versions 3.3.22 and prior, an authenticated user with page-editing rights can store an arbitrary filesystem path in a page's template attribute. On the public front-end, this value is passed unsanitized to a PHP include() when the page is rendered, allowing directory-traversal Local File Inclusion: arbitrary local files are included (and, if they contain PHP, executed) when any visitor requests the page. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
- CVE-2026-70650High
In GetSimple CMS and GetSimple CMS CE versions 3.3.22 and prior, an authenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the page backup viewer (admin/backup-edit.php). Page fields are correctly HTML-encoded when a page is saved, but the backup viewer decodes them again (htmldecode() / strip_decode()) and prints the result without re-escaping. A user who can edit a page can store JavaScript in a page's Keywords, Description, Menu text or Content; it executes in the browser of any administrator who later views that page's backup, in the context of the admin control panel. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Original NVD description (English source)
GetSimple CMS is a content management system (CMS), and GetSimple CMS CE is the community edition of that CMS. In version 3.3.22, the password reset endpoint can be accessed without authentication. When a reset request is submitted for an existing user, the application generates a new temporary password and immediately stores its hash as the user's new password. The temporary password is generated using PHP rand() seeded with microtime(). Because this seed is time-based and has a limited effective search space, an attacker can generate possible reset password candidates. Since the admin login endpoint does not enforce rate limiting or account lockout, these candidates can be tested online until the correct password is found. Successful exploitation may lead to administrator account takeover. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
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