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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in YesWiki

Type: advisorySources: OSV

YesWiki is a wiki system written in PHP. Prior to 4.4.5, the use of a weak cryptographic algorithm and a hard-coded salt to hash the password reset key allows it to be recovered and used to reset the password of any account. This issue is fixed in 4.4.5.

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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-51478
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
6 Nov 2026, 00:50 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in YesWiki

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Oct 2024, 16:15 UTC

YesWiki is a wiki system written in PHP. Prior to 4.4.5, the use of a weak cryptographic algorithm and a hard-coded salt to hash the password reset key allows it to be recovered and used to reset the password of any account. This issue is fixed in 4.4.5.

osv:CVE-2024-51478
Complete source record
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  "id": "7c4eb2f09772e253d09c4722dbd04727c230e4c16246b78b709c62195a453560",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-51478",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in YesWiki",
    "summary": "YesWiki is a wiki system written in PHP. Prior to 4.4.5, the use of a weak cryptographic algorithm and a hard-coded salt to hash the password reset key allows it to be recovered and used to reset the password of any account. This issue is fixed in 4.4.5.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-51478",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-51478",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-51478",
        "GHSA-4fvx-h823-38v3"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/yeswiki/yeswiki",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "e1285709f6f6a2277bd0075acf369f33cefd78f7"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "b5a8f93b87720d5d5f033a4b3a131ce0fb621dbc"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:yeswiki:yeswiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
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                      },
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                      }
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                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "b5a8f93b87720d5d5f033a4b3a131ce0fb621dbc"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
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                        "fixed": "e1285709f6f6a2277bd0075acf369f33cefd78f7"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v4.4.4",
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            "v4.4.1",
            "v4.4.0",
            "v4.3.1",
            "v4.3.0",
            "v4.2.2",
            "v4.2.1",
            "v4.2.0",
            "v4.1.5",
            "v4.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-51478.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:45.764312548Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/51xxx/CVE-2024-51478.json",
        "https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/security/advisories/GHSA-4fvx-h823-38v3",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-51478",
        "https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/commit/b5a8f93b87720d5d5f033a4b3a131ce0fb621dbc",
        "https://github.com/YesWiki/yeswiki/commit/e1285709f6f6a2277bd0075acf369f33cefd78f7"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-327"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/51xxx/CVE-2024-51478.json"
      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 513609,
  "published_at": "2024-10-31T16:15:46.811+00:00"
}