Protected-entry password disclosure via plaintext session storage
Published Jul 19, 2026 · Updated Jul 19, 2026
Cleartext password storage in Fantomas42 django-blog-zinnia 0.20 and earlier allows local users to recover protected-entry passwords. The entry protection mixin writes the submitted password directly to Django session data, then reads it back for later comparison. Recovery requires access to readable client-side sessions or exposed session storage such as logs, backups, or the session database.
Summary
What happened
Cleartext password storage in Fantomas42 django-blog-zinnia 0.20 and earlier allows local users to recover protected-entry passwords. The entry protection mixin writes the submitted password directly to Django session data, then reads it back for later comparison. Recovery requires access to readable client-side sessions or exposed session storage such as logs, backups, or the session database.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-16213
- Published
- Jul 19, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 19, 2026
- Vendor
- Fantomas42
- Product
- django-blog-zinnia
- Classifications
- CWE-310, CWE-312, T1552
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 19, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 19, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0.1
- Affected versionversion=0.10
- Affected versionversion=0.11
- Affected versionversion=0.12
- Affected versionversion=0.13
- Affected versionversion=0.14
- Affected versionversion=0.15
- Affected versionversion=0.16
- Affected versionversion=0.17
- Affected versionversion=0.18
- Affected versionversion=0.19
- Affected versionversion=0.2
- Affected versionversion=0.20
- Affected versionversion=0.3
- Affected versionversion=0.4
- Affected versionversion=0.5
- Affected versionversion=0.6
- Affected versionversion=0.7
- Affected versionversion=0.8
- Affected versionversion=0.9
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Protected-entry session disclosure proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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