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🛡️ CVE-2025-68129 — auth0-php

🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 NVD
6.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Auth0-PHP SDK has Improper Audience Validation

Description

In applications built with the Auth0-PHP SDK, the audience validation in access tokens is performed improperly. Without proper validation, affected applications may accept ID tokens as Access tokens.

Affected product and versions

Projects are affected if they meet the following preconditions:

  • Applications using the Auth0-PHP SDK, versions between v8.0.0 and v8.17.0, or
  • Applications using the following SDKs that rely on the Auth0-PHP SDK versions between v8.0.0 and v8.17.0:
  • a. Auth0/symfony,
  • b. Auth0/laravel-auth0,
  • c. Auth0/wordpress.

Resolution

Upgrade Auth0/Auth0-PHP to version 8.18.0 or greater.

Acknowledgement

Okta would like to thank Jafar Sadiq (iaf4r) for their discovery and responsible disclosure.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68129 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68129 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • auth0-php (from 8.0.0 up to 8.18.0)
  • auth0/auth0-php (from 8.0.0 up to 8.18.0)
  • laravel-auth0 (from 7.0.0 up to 7.20.0)
  • symfony (from 5.0.0 up to 5.6.0)
  • wp-auth0 (from 5.0.0 up to 5.5.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

auth0-php has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
auth0-php 8.0.0 8.18.0
auth0/auth0-php 8.0.0 8.18.0
laravel-auth0 7.0.0 7.20.0
symfony 5.0.0 5.6.0
wp-auth0 5.0.0 5.5.0

References

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