Sceawere
Vulnerability Detail
CVE-2026-54510 Verified Sceawere Triage Sources: NVD / CISA KEV
Vulnerability Metadata
- Severity
- High
- Score / CVSS
- 7.1
- Creation Date
- 1d ago
- Vendor
- murtaza-nasir
- Product
- speakr
- Attack Type
- CWE-287: Improper Authentication
- Vector String
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- Attack Complexity
- LOW
Narrative and Response
Description
Speakr is a personal, self-hosted web application designed for transcribing audio recordings. Prior to 0.8.21-alpha, the csrf_exempt_for_api_tokens() before_request hook in src/app.py calls csrf.exempt(view_func), permanently adding the selected view to Flask-WTF's process-global exemption set. The is_token_authenticated() function in src/utils/token_auth.py calls extract_token_from_request() and treats any present token, including request.args.get('token'), as authenticated without hashing the token, querying the database, or checking validity. A network-reachable attacker can therefore send a false token to disable CSRF protection for the targeted view for the worker lifetime. Because the exemption applies to the view function across HTTP methods, a cross-origin GET to /account with a query token can poison CSRF state for a later state-changing POST without triggering CORS preflight. This browser sequence requires attacker-controlled content on a sibling subdomain under the documented cookie conditions. The bypass can modify profile data, custom prompts, transcription settings, preferences, and administrative status through routes such as admin_toggle_admin. The change_password route also skips current-password verification when current_user.password is empty, allowing the chain to set a local password on an SSO-only account and bypass SSO. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.21-alpha.
Executive Summary
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Technical Details
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Mitigations
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References
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Additional Metadata
{
"score": "7.1",
"pubDate": "2026-09-17T21:17:16.237Z",
"pubdate": "2026-09-17T21:17:16.237Z"
}