About “Plaintext Password”

A curated feed of “Plaintext Password”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 97 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 28 were published. Average CVSS is 6.5 (all time; 6.8 over 365d), and 42% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials, CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File, CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a MODERATE impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2026-06-03
High

CVE-2026-36609

Mercusys AC12G (EU) V1 router with firmware AC12G(EU)_V1_200909 uses a static authentication nonce that does not change between requests from the same source IP. Combined with the predictable XOR-bas…

2026-05-28
High

CVE-2026-35675

phpMyFAQ before 4.1.3 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the password reset endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to reset any user account password without token verificatio…

2026-05-12
Critical

CVE-2026-43948

wger is a free, open-source workout and fitness manager. Prior to 2.6, the reset_user_password and gym_permissions_user_edit views in wger perform a gym-scope authorization check using Python object…

2026-05-11
Medium

CVE-2026-43875

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions up to and including 29.0, plugin/MobileManager/oauth2.php completes an OAuth login by sending an HTTP 302 Location: oauth2Success.php?user=<e…

2026-04-15
Medium

CVE-2026-40091

SpiceDB is an open source database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. In versions 1.49.0 through 1.51.0, when SpiceDB starts with log level info, the startup…

2026-04-13
High

CVE-2026-5086

Crypt::SecretBuffer versions before 0.019 for Perl is suseceptible to timing attacks. For example, if Crypt::SecretBuffer was used to store and compare plaintext passwords, then discrepencies in tim…

2026-04-02
High

CVE-2026-34833

Bulwark Webmail is a self-hosted webmail client for Stalwart Mail Server. Prior to version 1.4.10, the GET /api/auth/session endpoint previously included the user's plaintext password in the JSON res…

2026-03-25
Medium

CVE-2026-23370

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Don't hex dump plaintext password data set_new_password() hex dumps the entire buffer, which conta…

2026-03-22
High

CVE-2019-25605

EquityPandit 1.0 contains an insecure logging vulnerability that allows attackers to capture sensitive user credentials by accessing developer console logs via Android Debug Bridge. Attackers can use…

2026-03-11
Medium

CVE-2026-20164

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.0, 10.0.3, 9.4.9, and 9.3.10, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 10.2.2510.5, 10.1.2507.16, 10.0.2503.11, and 9.3.2411.123, a low-privileged user that d…

2026-03-10
Medium

CVE-2025-41711

An unauthenticated remote attacker can use firmware images to extract password hashes and brute force plaintext passwords of accounts with limited access.

2026-03-05
Critical

CVE-2026-29128

IDC SFX2100 Satellite Receiver firmware ships with multiple daemon configuration files for routing components (e.g., zebra, bgpd, ospfd, and ripd) that are owned by root but world-readable. The confi…

2026-02-24
High

CVE-2026-27520

Binardat 10G08-0800GSM network switch firmware versions prior to V300SP10260209 store a user password in a client-side cookie as a Base64-encoded value accessible via the web interface. Because Base6…

2026-02-18
High

CVE-2025-70147

Missing authentication in /admin/student.php and /admin/teacher.php in ProjectWorlds Online Time Table Generator 1.0 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (including plaintext passw…

2026-02-03
High

CVE-2020-37097

Edimax EW-7438RPn 1.13 contains an information disclosure vulnerability that exposes WiFi network configuration details through the wlencrypt_wiz.asp file. Attackers can access the script to retrieve…

2026-01-20
Medium

CVE-2026-1223

PrismX MX100 AP controller developed by BROWAN COMMUNICATIONS has an Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability, allowing privileged remote attackers to allowing authenticated remote attacker…

2026-01-19
Medium

CVE-2025-59355

A vulnerability. When org.apache.linkis.metadata.util.HiveUtils.decode() fails to perform Base64 decoding, it records the complete input parameter string in the log via logger.error(str + "decode fa…

2026-01-14
High

CVE-2026-22240

The vulnerability exists in BLUVOYIX due to an improper password storage implementation and subsequent exposure via unauthenticated APIs. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnera…

2025-12-19
Medium

CVE-2025-66910

Turms Server v0.10.0-SNAPSHOT and earlier contains a plaintext password storage vulnerability in the administrator authentication system. The BaseAdminService class caches administrator passwords in…

2025-12-16
Medium

CVE-2025-67874

ChurchCRM is an open-source church management system. Prior to version 6.5.0, the application echoes back plaintext passwords submitted by users in subsequent HTTP responses. This information disclos…

2025-12-04
Medium

CVE-2025-12996

Medtronic CareLink Network allows a local attacker with access to log files on an internal API server to view plaintext passwords from errors logged under certain circumstances. This issue affects Ca…

Medium

CVE-2025-14010

A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when r…

2025-11-18
High

CVE-2025-56527

Plaintext password storage in Kotaemon 0.11.0 in the client's localStorage.

2025-10-30
Medium

CVE-2025-34270

Nagios Log Server versions prior to 2024R2.0.2 contain a vulnerability in the AD/LDAP user import functionality as it fails to obfuscate the password field during import. As a result, the plaintext p…

2025-08-01
High

CVE-2025-54593

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. In versions 1.26.1 and below, an authenticated administrator user can execute arbitrary code on the FreshRSS server by modifying the update URL to on…

2025-07-31
Medium

CVE-2025-29557

ExaGrid EX10 6.3 - 7.0.1.P08 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control in the MailConfiguration API endpoint, where users with operator-level privileges can issue an HTTP request to retrieve SMTP cre…

2025-07-01
Medium

CVE-2025-6081

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in LDAP in Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers version GCQ-Y3 or earlier allows an attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external LDAP…

2025-06-25
Medium

CVE-2024-51984

An authenticated attacker can reconfigure the target device to use an external service (such as LDAP or FTP) controlled by the attacker. If an existing password is present for an external service, th…

2025-04-30
Medium

CVE-2025-24340

A vulnerability in the users configuration file of ctrlX OS may allow a remote authenticated (low-privileged) attacker to recover the plaintext passwords of other users.

2025-02-15
High

CVE-2024-5462

If Brocade Fabric OS before Fabric OS 9.2.0 configuration settings are not set to encrypt SNMP passwords, then the SNMP privsecret / authsecret fields can be exposed in plaintext. The plaintext passw…

2024-11-29
High

CVE-2024-11982

Certain models of routers from Billion Electric has a Plaintext Storage of a Password vulnerability. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can access the user settings page to retrieve plain…

2024-11-01
High

CVE-2024-48353

Yealink Meeting Server before V26.0.0.67 allows attackers to obtain static key information from a front-end JS file and decrypt the plaintext passwords based on the obtained key information.

2024-10-14
Medium

CVE-2024-45739

In Splunk Enterprise versions below 9.3.1, 9.2.3, and 9.1.6, the software potentially exposes plaintext passwords for local native authentication Splunk users. This exposure could happen when you con…

2024-09-30
High

CVE-2024-8455

The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. For certain switch models, the authentication tokens used during communication with this service are encoded user p…

Medium

CVE-2024-8453

Certain switch models from PLANET Technology use an insecure hashing function to hash user passwords without being salted. Remote attackers with administrator privileges can read configuration files…

2024-08-12
High

CVE-2024-36460

The front-end audit log allows viewing of unprotected plaintext passwords, where the passwords are displayed in plain text.

2024-07-30
High

CVE-2024-23091

Weak password hashing using MD5 in funzioni.php in HotelDruid before 1.32 allows an attacker to obtain plaintext passwords from hash values.

2024-07-26
High

CVE-2024-40116

An issue in Solar-Log 1000 before v2.8.2 and build 52-23.04.2013 was discovered to store plaintext passwords in the export.html, email.html, and sms.html files -- fixed with 3.0.0-60 11.10.2013 for S…

2024-05-14
Medium

CVE-2024-4840

An flaw was found in the OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) director, a toolset for installing and managing a complete RHOSP environment. Plaintext passwords may be stored in log files, which can expose sens…

Medium

CVE-2024-4232

This vulnerability exists in Digisol Router (DG-GR1321: Hardware version 3.7L; Firmware version : v3.2.02) due to lack of encryption or hashing in storing of passwords within the router's firmware/…

2024-02-13
Medium

CVE-2024-25118

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system released under the GNU GPL. Password hashes were being reflected in the editing forms of the TYPO3 backend user interface. This allowed…

2023-10-31
High

CVE-2023-38994

The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with…

2023-10-10
Medium

CVE-2023-37935

A use of GET request method with sensitive query strings vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.0.0 - 7.0.12, 7.2.0 - 7.2.5 and 7.4.0 allows an attacker to view plaintext passwords of remote services su…

Medium

CVE-2023-25604

An insertion of sensitive information into log file vulnerability in Fortinet FortiGuest 1.0.0 allows a local attacker to access plaintext passwords in the RADIUS logs.

2023-09-13
Medium

CVE-2023-40715

A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability [CWE-312] in FortiTester 2.3.0 through 7.2.3 may allow an attacker with access to the DB contents to retrieve the plaintext password of exte…

2023-08-11
Medium

CVE-2020-24804

Plaintext Password vulnerability in AddAdmin.py in cms-dev/cms v1.4.rc1, allows attackers to gain sensitive information via audit logs.

2023-08-04
High

CVE-2023-0525

Weak Encoding for Password vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GOT2000 Series GT27 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GT25 model versions 01.49.000 and prior, GT23 model versions 01.49.…

2023-07-12
Medium

CVE-2023-36266

An issue was discovered in Keeper Password Manager for Desktop version 16.10.2 (fixed in 17.2), and the KeeperFill Browser Extensions version 16.5.4 (fixed in 17.2), allows local attackers to gain se…

2023-07-03
Medium

CVE-2023-3395

​All versions of the TWinSoft Configuration Tool store encrypted passwords as plaintext in memory. An attacker with access to system files could open a file to load the document into memory, includin…

2023-04-27
Medium

CVE-2023-2335

Plaintext Password in Registry vulnerability in 42gears surelock windows surelockwinsetupv2.40.0.Exe on Windows (Registery modules) allows Retrieve Admin user credentials This issue affects sure…

2022-12-13
Medium

CVE-2022-31697

The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in plaintext. A malicious actor with access to a workstation that invoked a vCenter Server Applia…

2022-10-31
Medium

CVE-2022-40295

The application was vulnerable to an authenticated information disclosure, allowing administrators to view unsalted user passwords, which could lead to the compromise of plaintext passwords via offli…

2022-10-19
Medium

CVE-2022-2805

A flaw was found in ovirt-engine, which leads to the logging of plaintext passwords in the log file when using otapi-style. This flaw allows an attacker with sufficient privileges to read the log fil…

2022-08-16
Medium

CVE-2020-10710

A flaw was found where the Plaintext Candlepin password is disclosed while updating Red Hat Satellite through the satellite-installer. This flaw allows an attacker with sufficiently high privileges,…

2022-07-26
High

CVE-2022-30275

The Motorola MOSCAD Toolbox software through 2022-05-02 relies on a cleartext password. It utilizes an MDLC driver to communicate with MOSCAD/ACE RTUs for engineering purposes. Access to these commun…

2022-05-10
Medium

CVE-2022-24041

A vulnerability has been identified in Desigo DXR2 (All versions < V01.21.142.5-22), Desigo PXC3 (All versions < V01.21.142.4-18), Desigo PXC4 (All versions < V02.20.142.10-10884), Desigo PXC5 (All v…

2022-02-18
Medium

CVE-2016-2124

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.

2022-02-10
Medium

CVE-2022-0019

An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Linux that exposes the hashed credentials of GlobalProtect users that saved their password…

2021-12-30
Medium

CVE-2021-20133

Quagga Services on D-Link DIR-2640 less than or equal to version 1.11B02 are affected by an absolute path traversal vulnerability that allows a remote, authenticated attacker to set the "message of t…

2021-08-23
Critical

CVE-2021-39614

D-Link DVX-2000MS contains hard-coded credentials for undocumented user accounts in the '/etc/passwd' file. As weak passwords have been used, the plaintext passwords can be recovered from the hash va…

Critical

CVE-2021-39613

D-Link DVG-3104MS version 1.0.2.0.3, 1.0.2.0.4, and 1.0.2.0.4E contains hard-coded credentials for undocumented user accounts in the '/etc/passwd' file. As weak passwords have been used, the plaintex…

2020-09-30
High

CVE-2020-13952

In the course of work on the open source project it was discovered that authenticated users running queries against Hive and Presto database engines could access information via a number of templated…

2020-09-25
Critical

CVE-2019-16211

Brocade SANnav versions before v2.1.0, contain a Plaintext Password Storage vulnerability.

2020-04-09
Medium

CVE-2020-5263

auth0.js (NPM package auth0-js) greater than version 8.0.0 and before version 9.12.3 has a vulnerability. In the case of an (authentication) error, the error object returned by the library contains t…

2020-01-23
High

CVE-2012-6663

General Electric D20ME devices are not properly configured and reveal plaintext passwords.

2019-04-17
High

CVE-2018-13378

An information disclosure vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSIEM 5.2.0 and below versions exposes the LDAP server plaintext password via the HTML source code.

2019-04-09
Medium

CVE-2019-3893

In Foreman it was discovered that the delete compute resource operation, when executed from the Foreman API, leads to the disclosure of the plaintext password or token for the affected compute resour…

High

CVE-2019-10630

A plaintext password vulnerability in the Zyxel NAS 326 through 5.21 allows an elevated privileged user to get the admin password of the device.

2019-03-05
High

CVE-2019-6518

Moxa IKS and EDS store plaintext passwords, which may allow sensitive information to be read by someone with access to the device.

2018-11-29
Medium

CVE-2018-16859

Execution of Ansible playbooks on Windows platforms with PowerShell ScriptBlock logging and Module logging enabled can allow for 'become' passwords to appear in EventLogs in plaintext. A local user w…

2018-11-26
Medium

CVE-2018-13317

Password disclosure in password.htm in TOTOLINK A3002RU version 1.0.8 allows attackers to obtain the plaintext password for the admin user by making a GET request for password.htm.

2018-11-18
Medium

CVE-2008-7320

GNOME Seahorse through 3.30 allows physically proximate attackers to read plaintext passwords by using the quickAllow dialog at an unattended workstation, if the keyring is unlocked. NOTE: this is di…

2018-10-18
Medium

CVE-2018-11079

Dell EMC Secure Remote Services, versions prior to 3.32.00.08, contains a Plaintext Password Storage vulnerability. Database credentials are stored in plaintext in a configuration file. An authentica…

2018-07-18
Low

CVE-2018-10871

389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica and/or retroChangeLog plugins are enabled, 389-ds-base stores…

2018-05-22
Critical

CVE-2018-11325

An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. The web install application would autofill password fields after either a form validation error or navigating to a previous install step, and dis…

2018-03-21
High

CVE-2017-0925

Gitlab Enterprise Edition version 10.1.0 is vulnerable to an insufficiently protected credential issue in the project service integration API endpoint resulting in an information disclosure of plaint…

2017-08-05
Low

CVE-2017-9856

An issue was discovered in SMA Solar Technology products. Sniffed passwords from SMAdata2+ communication can be decrypted very easily. The passwords are "encrypted" using a very simple encryption alg…

Critical

CVE-2017-9854

An issue was discovered in SMA Solar Technology products. By sniffing for specific packets on the localhost, plaintext passwords can be obtained as they are typed into Sunny Explorer by the user. The…

2017-03-30
Critical

CVE-2017-7318

Siklu EtherHaul devices before 7.4.0 are vulnerable to a remote command execution (RCE) vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute commands and retrieve information such as…

2017-03-09
High

CVE-2017-6528

An issue was discovered in dnaTools dnaLIMS 4-2015s13. dnaLIMS is affected by plaintext password storage (the /home/dna/spool/.pfile file).

2016-06-01
Medium

CVE-2016-3094

PlainSaslServer.java in Apache Qpid Java before 6.0.3, when the broker is configured to allow plaintext passwords, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (broker termination) via a craf…

2013-03-12
Low

CVE-2012-6117

Aeolus Configuration Server, as used in Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine before 1.1.2, uses world-readable permissions for /var/log/aeolus-configserver/configserver.log, which allows local users to re…

2012-07-03
Low

CVE-2012-2678

389 Directory Server before 1.2.11.6 (aka Red Hat Directory Server before 8.2.10-3), after the password for a LDAP user has been changed and before the server has been reset, allows remote attackers…

2011-02-07
Medium

CVE-2011-0899

The AES encryption module 7.x-1.4 for Drupal leaves certain debugging code enabled in release, which records the plaintext password of the last logged-in user and allows remote attackers to gain priv…

2006-06-24
Medium

CVE-2006-3204

Ultimate PHP Board (UPB) 1.9.6 and earlier uses a cryptographically weak block cipher with a large key collision space, which allows remote attackers to determine a suitable decryption key given the…

2005-12-21
Critical

CVE-2005-4448

FlatNuke 2.5.6 verifies authentication credentials based on an MD5 checksum of the admin name and the hashed password rather than the plaintext password, which allows attackers to gain privileges by…

2004-09-07
High

CVE-2004-0823

OpenLDAP 1.0 through 2.1.19, as used in Apple Mac OS 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 and possibly other operating systems, may allow certain authentication schemes to use hashed (crypt) passwords in the userPasswo…

2003-12-31
Medium

CVE-2003-1401

login.php in php-Board 1.0 stores plaintext passwords in $username.txt with insufficient access control under the web document root, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via…

2003-06-30
High

CVE-2003-0414

The installation of Sun ONE Application Server 7.0 for Windows 2000/XP creates a statefile with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading a plaintext password…

2003-03-31
Medium

CVE-2002-1530

The administrative web interface (STEMWADM) for SurfControl SuperScout Email Filter allows users to obtain usernames and plaintext passwords via a request to the userlist.asp program, which includes…

2003-02-19
Medium

CVE-2003-0046

AbsoluteTelnet SSH2 client does not clear logon credentials from memory, including plaintext passwords, which could allow attackers with access to memory to steal the SSH credentials.

Medium

CVE-2003-0047

SSH2 clients for VanDyke (1) SecureCRT 4.0.2 and 3.4.7, (2) SecureFX 2.1.2 and 2.0.4, and (3) Entunnel 1.0.2 and earlier, do not clear logon credentials from memory, including plaintext passwords, wh…

Medium

CVE-2003-0048

PuTTY 0.53b and earlier does not clear logon credentials from memory, including plaintext passwords, which could allow attackers with access to memory to steal the SSH credentials.

2002-08-12
Medium

CVE-2002-0810

Bugzilla 2.14 before 2.14.2, and 2.16 before 2.16rc2, directs error messages from the syncshadowdb command to the HTML output, which could leak sensitive information, including plaintext passwords, i…

2000-12-19
High

CVE-2000-0957

The pluggable authentication module for mysql (pam_mysql) before 0.4.7 does not properly cleanse user input when constructing SQL statements, which allows attackers to obtain plaintext passwords or h…

1999-12-02
Low

CVE-1999-0862

Insecure directory permissions in RPM distribution for PostgreSQL allows local users to gain privileges by reading a plaintext password file.

1998-11-30
High

CVE-1999-1073

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a br…

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