CVE-2019-15929: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

May 24, 2022 (updated February 1, 2024)

In Craft CMS through 3.1.7, the elevated session password prompt was not being rate limited like normal login forms, leading to the possibility of a brute force attempt on them.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-wvr4-w6cw-4px8
github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/3.1.7/CHANGELOG-v3.md
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15929

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