CVE-2025-62294
📋 TL;DR
SOPlanning's password recovery token generation uses predictable values, allowing attackers to brute-force tokens and hijack any user account. This affects all SOPlanning installations before version 1.55. Attackers can compromise accounts without authentication.
💻 Affected Systems
- SOPlanning
📦 What is this software?
Soplanning by Soplanning
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete account takeover of all users, including administrators, leading to full system compromise and data breach.
Likely Case
Targeted account takeover of specific users, potentially leading to unauthorized access and privilege escalation.
If Mitigated
Limited impact if rate limiting or monitoring detects brute-force attempts, but risk remains until patched.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires only network access to the SOPlanning instance and ability to send HTTP requests.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 1.55
Vendor Advisory: https://www.soplanning.org/en/
Restart Required: Yes
Instructions:
1. Backup current SOPlanning installation and database. 2. Download version 1.55 from official SOPlanning website. 3. Replace existing files with new version. 4. Restart web server service.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable password recovery functionality
allTemporarily disable the password reset feature to prevent exploitation.
Modify SOPlanning configuration to remove password reset links and endpoints
Implement rate limiting
allAdd rate limiting to password recovery endpoints to prevent brute-force attacks.
Configure web server (e.g., nginx, Apache) to limit requests to /password-reset endpoints
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement network-level restrictions to limit access to SOPlanning instance
- Enable detailed logging and monitoring for password reset attempts
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check SOPlanning version in admin panel or via version file. If version is below 1.55, system is vulnerable.Check Version:
Check SOPlanning admin dashboard or view version.txt in installation directoryVerify Fix Applied:
After upgrading to 1.55, verify password recovery tokens are now cryptographically secure and unpredictable.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple failed password reset attempts from single IP
- Unusual password reset success patterns
Network Indicators:
- High volume of requests to password reset endpoints
- Patterned token guessing attempts
SIEM Query:
source="soplanning.log" AND (url_path="/password-reset" OR url_path="/recover") AND status=200 | stats count by src_ip