CVE-2026-81578 PoC — PaperCut MF/NG: Authentication Bypass

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-81578.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title: PaperCut MF/NG: Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-81578)
Description:An improper access control vulnerability exists in the web management interface of PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG. Under specific conditions, unauthenticated remote requests targeting administrative functions can trigger backend actions prior to the completion of access validation checks. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to modify certain system configurations.

Description

PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF versions 24.x through 26.x contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Apache Tapestry-based web interface. By crafting a complex-direct service request that specifies the public Home page as the render target while invoking the privileged ConfigEditor page's form listeners, an unauthenticated remote attacker can search and modify server configuration options. PaperCut's access control validates the render page but fails to validate the component page, allowing full configuration access without authentication. When chained with CVE-2026-82078, an attacker reconfigures external user lookup to use a malicious JDBC URL whose initialization SQL evaluates arbitrary Groovy code, achieving unauthenticated remote code execution. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.

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