NivoCart up to 2.4.0 Password Reset forgotten.php mt_rand password recovery

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A vulnerability was found in NivoCart up to 2.4.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function mt_rand of the file forgotten.php of the component Password Reset. The manipulation leads to password recovery. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-94107. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in NivoCart up to 2.4.0. This issue affects the function mt_rand of the file forgotten.php of the component Password Reset. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

NivoCart through 2.4.0 contains a predictable password reset token vulnerability in the forgotten.php endpoint that generates recovery codes using substr(md5(mt_rand()), 0, 10). Attackers who know an administrator's email address can request a password reset and predict the token to gain administrative account access without rate limiting or expiration.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-94107 since 09/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/20/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:forgotten.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-83727). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• NivoCart

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4.0

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• Product: https://github.com/nivocart/nivocart/

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