CVE-2026-92161 PUBLISHED

FriendsOfFlarum OAuth: Unauthenticated account takeover via unverified email trust in Discord OAuth provider

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

FriendsOfFlarum OAuth allows users to log in to Flarum with GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, and other providers. Prior to 1.7.4 and 2.0.0-beta.4, the Discord OAuth provider does not check the verified field returned for an OAuth email before passing the address to Flarum core as trusted through provideTrustedEmail(). When Discord sign-in is enabled, an unauthenticated attacker who knows the email address of a Flarum user can configure a Discord account with that unverified address and a verified phone number, then sign in to cause Flarum to match the trusted address, link the attacker-controlled Discord identity to the existing user, and authenticate as the victim without a password or victim interaction. Exploitation requires that the victim's email address is not already associated with a Discord account, and it can compromise administrator accounts. Other bundled providers were not confirmed to be practically exploitable by this method because their relevant authentication flows return only verified or confirmed email addresses. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.4 and 2.0.0-beta.4.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor FriendsOfFlarum
Product oauth
Versions
  • Version < 1.7.4 is affected
  • Version >= 2.0.0-beta.1, < 2.0.0-beta.4 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity CWE