Emlog is an open source website building system. In 2.6.26 and earlier, install.php accepts action=reinstall without authentication and deliberately skips the already-installed check because the guard runs only when $act != 'reinstall'. A remote attacker can submit hostname, dbuser, dbpasswd, dbname, dbprefix, username, password, and email values to cause file_put_contents('config.php', $config) to overwrite the configuration with attacker-controlled database settings and create a new administrator account. No fixed version is available as of this review.
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| Description | Emlog is an open source website building system. In 2.6.26 and earlier, install.php accepts action=reinstall without authentication and deliberately skips the already-installed check because the guard runs only when $act != 'reinstall'. A remote attacker can submit hostname, dbuser, dbpasswd, dbname, dbprefix, username, password, and email values to cause file_put_contents('config.php', $config) to overwrite the configuration with attacker-controlled database settings and create a new administrator account. No fixed version is available as of this review. | |
| Title | emlog allows unauthenticated reinstallation via `install.php?action=reinstall`. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-306 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-08-14T17:37:20.232Z
Reserved: 2026-08-13T17:44:28.644Z
Link: CVE-2026-73849
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-14T18:19:09.987
Modified: 2026-08-14T18:19:09.987
Link: CVE-2026-73849
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