CVE-2026-87929
CRITICAL
9.8
Our Analysis: Environment Specific
Our model has classified this vulnerability as relevant to Environment Specific Systems, helping your team prioritize efforts effectively.
Published Date
September 9, 2026
Last Modified
September 9, 2026
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
MaxSite CMS through 109.6 ships with a hardcoded session encryption key in application/config/config.php that is never changed during installation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator session cookies. Attackers can mint a malicious ci_session cookie with administrator privileges by computing an HMAC-SHA1 using the publicly known encryption key, bypassing authentication checks in is_login() and mso_check_allow() functions.