PT-2026-41974 · Npm · @Haxtheweb/Open-Apis
Published
2026-05-19
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Updated
2026-05-19
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CVE-2026-46391
CVSS v4.0
8.7
High
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N |
Summary
Multiple functions conduct substring-only matching to validate hostnames to which basic authorization should be sent. An attacker can append the matched substrings to an attacker-controlled endpoint and capture authentication.
Details
api/services/website/cacheAddress.js, api/apps/haxcms/lib/JOSHelpers.js, and api/apps/haxcms/convert/elmslnToSite.js use similar logic to check for hard-coded site names. However, the logic only looks for the substring to be included in the user-controlled string, allowing an attacker to craft an API call and extract the credentials intended for the hard-coded domains.
PoC
Making API calls to an affected endpoint will result in credential theft. The attacker-controlled domains in these proofs of concept are
cloudflared tunnels, protecting the production credentials from unencrypted exposure.cacheAddress.js:

elmslnToSite.js:

JOSHelpers.js:

Impact
This vulnerability allows internal data, including secrets, to be exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled domain. Credentials were confirmed with the maintainer to grant access to unreleased LMS content on subsequent systems; out of scope for PoC.
Fix
SSRF
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
@Haxtheweb/Open-Apis