CVE-2023-48707 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in codeigniter4/shield

CodeIgniter Shield is an authentication and authorization provider for CodeIgniter 4. The secretKey value is an important key for HMAC SHA256 authentication and in affected versions was stored in the database in cleartext form. If a malicious person somehow had access to the data in the database,...

CVE-2023-48707

The CVE-2023-48707 entry concerns CodeIgniter Shield (CodeIgniter 4) where the secretKey used for HMAC SHA256 authentication was stored in cleartext in the database in affected versions. This plaintext storage enables an attacker with DB access to misuse the secretKey to impersonate users via HMA...