API credential theft via dashboard key embedding
Published Feb 6, 2026 · Updated Feb 6, 2026
Information disclosure in Gophish 0.12.1 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to obtain an administrator's long-lived API key. The administrative dashboard serializes the key in cleartext into an embedded JavaScript user object, exposing it to every script that can read the page DOM. Exploitation requires code execution in an administrator's browser context, after which the key grants REST API access that persists beyond the web session.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in Gophish 0.12.1 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to obtain an administrator's long-lived API key. The administrative dashboard serializes the key in cleartext into an embedded JavaScript user object, exposing it to every script that can read the page DOM. Exploitation requires code execution in an administrator's browser context, after which the key grants REST API access that persists beyond the web session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-70963
- Published
- Feb 6, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 6, 2026
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-922, CWE-200, T1528
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 6, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 6, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- Gophish issue 9366 reproduction stepsproof of concept · unverified
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