highCVSS 8.1Vulnerability

GHSA-qxvm-r42f-5p8j

## Summary **Type:** Authorization-bypass via user-controlled identifier. The Meet plugin's recorded-video upload endpoint (`plugin/Meet/uploadRecordedVideo.json.php`) authenticates the caller using a single shared `Authorization: Bearer <secret>` against `$objM->secret`. Once that check passes, the endpoint reads the *target user identifier* from the uploaded file's `name` field, instantiates a `User` object with that ID, and calls `$userObject->login(true, true)` — the no-password / encoded-password login path — committing a session for that user and emitting `Set-Cookie` headers to the caller. There is no check that the caller actually owns the requested `users_id`. **File:** `plugin/Meet/uploadRecordedVideo.json.php`, lines 56-65; secondary in `objects/user.php` `User::login()` (no-password branch at lines 1276-1310). **Root cause:** the upload handler's identity model is "service-to-service" (a Meet/Jitsi recorder posts a finished recording back to AVideo with the shared secret) but the `users_id` to credit the upload to is parsed from the FILENAME the same caller controls — `$users_id = explode('-', $_FILES['upl']['name'])[0];`. There is no signed claim, no separate proof-of-identity, no allowlist. The subsequent `$userObject->login(true, true)` call invokes the no-password login path which sets `$_SESSION['user']`, calls `setUserCookie(...)`, and `_session_regenerate_id()` — exactly the operations a normal login performs. The response carries the new `PHPSESSID` back to the caller, who can then reuse it on every subsequent request to act as the targeted user. The Meet shared secret is `md5($global['systemRootPath'] . $global['salt'] . "meet")` (`Meet.php:73`), so any attacker who can read `videos/configuration.php` (e.g., via a path-traversal CVE such as `GHSA-83xq-8jxj-4rxm` or `GHSA-4wmm-6qxj-fpj4` that the project has already addressed in this surface area) can compute the Meet secret deterministically and pivot to full account takeover. ## Affected Code

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-qxvm-r42f-5p8j
severity
high
summary
AVideo's Meet plugin: `uploadRecordedVideo.json.php` derives `users_id` from the uploaded filename and calls passwordless `User->login()`, allowing any caller with the Meet shared secret to obtain a session as arbitrary users including admin
cvss_score
8.1
cve_id
GHSA-qxvm-r42f-5p8j
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-05-15T18:17:19Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qxvm-r42f-5p8j
ghsa_updated
2026-05-15T18:17:21Z

Related Entities (6)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]composer/WWBN/AVideo

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]composer/WWBN/AVideo

HAS_WEAKNESS (3)

[Weakness]Improper Authentication
[Weakness]Weak Authentication
[Weakness]Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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