{"id":30640,"date":"2025-04-24T18:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:09:31","slug":"cve-2025-31380-weak-password-recovery-mechanism-vulnerability-in-paid-videochat-turnkey-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31380-weak-password-recovery-mechanism-vulnerability-in-paid-videochat-turnkey-site\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-31380: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism Vulnerability in Paid Videochat Turnkey Site<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system has recently identified a critical vulnerability, labeled as CVE-2025-31380, in the Paid Videochat Turnkey Site by videowhisper. This exploit allows potential attackers to exploit a weak password recovery mechanism to gain unauthorized access. As this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-2567-a-high-risk-vulnerability-impacting-atg-monitoring-systems\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35498\">vulnerability impacts<\/a> the Paid Videochat Turnkey Site, it poses a significant risk to any organizations using versions up to 7.3.11 of the software. This makes the issue important to address promptly as it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-30727-unpatched-vulnerability-in-oracle-scripting-leads-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35786\">lead to system<\/a> compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-31380<br \/>\nSeverity: Critical (9.8 CVSS Severity Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-22636-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-vr-frases-leads-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40205\">Potential system<\/a> compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-215758022\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>videowhisper Paid Videochat Turnkey Site | Up to 7.3.11<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability arises from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-29471-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-nagios-log-server\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"36377\">weak password recovery mechanism in the Paid Videochat Turnkey<\/a> Site. When a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-9114-critical-arbitrary-user-password-change-vulnerability-in-doccure-wordpress-theme\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"88280\">user requests password<\/a> recovery, the site generates a predictable, non-random recovery code that an attacker can guess or compute with relative ease. This allows the attacker to initiate a password recovery process and gain unauthorized access to the user&#8217;s account, thereby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-22900-stack-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-n600r-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35190\">potentially compromising the system or leading<\/a> to data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2098674094\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a conceptual example of how an attacker might <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-50123-exploitable-vulnerability-in-hozard-alarm-system-sms-authentication\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35191\">exploit this vulnerability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">POST \/password_recovery HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nContent-Type: application\/json\n{\n&quot;user_id&quot;: &quot;target-user&quot;,\n&quot;recovery_code&quot;: &quot;computed_recovery_code&quot;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the attacker has computed the predictable recovery code for `target-user` and sends a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-6162-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-ex1200t-http-post-request-handler\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"64035\">POST request<\/a> to the password recovery endpoint. If the server validates the `recovery_code`, the attacker will be able to reset the password and gain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-30960-unauthorized-access-vulnerability-in-notfound-fs-poster\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"36364\">unauthorized access<\/a> to the `target-user` account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best mitigation for this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-50213-special-element-injection-vulnerability-in-apache-airflow-providers-snowflake\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"64034\">vulnerability is to apply the patch provided<\/a> by the vendor as soon as it becomes available. If this is not immediately possible, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can provide temporary mitigation by detecting and blocking suspicious activity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48817-exploiting-relative-path-traversal-in-remote-desktop-clients\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"92345\">related to this exploit<\/a>. In the longer term, organizations should also consider implementing stronger password recovery mechanisms that use unpredictable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3495-critical-security-vulnerability-in-delta-electronics-commgr-due-to-insufficiently-randomized-session-ids\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35989\">random recovery codes to prevent such vulnerabilities<\/a> in the future.<br \/>\nStay vigilant, stay safe. Your cybersecurity matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system has recently identified a critical vulnerability, labeled as CVE-2025-31380, in the Paid Videochat Turnkey Site by videowhisper. This exploit allows potential attackers to exploit a weak password recovery mechanism to gain unauthorized access. As this vulnerability impacts the Paid Videochat Turnkey Site, it poses a significant risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-30640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30640"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85568,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640\/revisions\/85568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=30640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}