pH7Builder (pH7 Social Dating CMS) before 18.5.0 contains an improper restriction of authentication attempts vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass two-factor authentication by guessing TOTP codes without limits. Attackers who know an account password can submit unlimited 6-digit verification codes to VerificationCodeFormProcess.php to take over member, affiliate, or administrator accounts.
CVE-2026-107638
Score 6.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-08. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.8
- EG Score
- 6.8MEDIUMhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 31EG Risk 31/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity68% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 28th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
October 8, 2026
Last Modified
October 8, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026pH7Builder before 18.5.0 2FA Brute Force via VerificationCodeFormProcess.php | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ph7builder-before-18.5.0-2fa-brute-force-via-verificationcodeformprocess-phpGitHub - pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS: Self-hosted, open-source PHP 8.2+ software for building white-label dating sites, matchmaking communities, and social networks. Own your code, hosting, database, and member data. · GitHub
https://github.com/pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMSpH7-Social-Dating-CMS/_protected/app/system/modules/two-factor-auth/forms/processing/VerificationCodeFormProcess.php at v18.4.1 · pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS · GitHub
https://github.com/pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS/blob/v18.4.1/_protected/app/system/modules/two-factor-auth/forms/processing/VerificationCodeFormProcess.php#L34-L60commit 44970860b82f (pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS)
Patch available: pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS v18.5.0 (contains commit 44970860b82f)
https://github.com/pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS/commit/44970860b82f8af867de9d2832081485f5dbe578Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-107638(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 9× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-09 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-08 18:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 18:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-08 18:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-10-08 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 14:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 14:16 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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