CVE-2026-71260 ESPHome web_server Plaintext Password Disclosure via JSON "value" Field

ESPHome through 2026.7.0-dev discloses plaintext passwords via its webserver component. In WebServer::textjson esphome/components/webserver/webserver.cpp, a text entity configured with mode: password TEXTMODEPASSWORD has its JSON "state" field correctly masked as "", but the same serialization pa...

CVE-2026-71260 ESPHome web_server Plaintext Password Disclosure via JSON "value" Field

ESPHome through 2026.7.0-dev discloses plaintext passwords via its webserver component. In WebServer::textjson esphome/components/webserver/webserver.cpp, a text entity configured with mode: password TEXTMODEPASSWORD has its JSON "state" field correctly masked as "", but the same serialization pa...

CVE-2026-71260

CVE-2026-71260 affects ESPHome up to 2026.7.0-dev. In the web_server component, a text entity with mode: password correctly masks the TEXT field in the JSON 'state', but the serialization path unconditionally writes the raw password into the JSON 'value' field via set_json_icon_state_value()/set_...