# CVE-2026-120446: madong-admin-saas - Authentication Bypass

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2026-120446 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2026-120446

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Insufficient Data. Not enough CrowdSec telemetry data is available to confidently assess how this vulnerability is exploited in the wild.
- **CVSS score:** 8.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Madong-code madong-admin-saas
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function)
- **Tags:** web_application, management_panel

## Description

madong-admin-saas through 5.1.4 contains a missing authentication vulnerability in the platform tenant management API because the 'platformapi' middleware key never matches the 'platform' application. Unauthenticated remote attackers can call /platformapi/tenant/account, bind-plan and sync-data endpoints to list, create, modify, disable or delete tenants and bind subscription plans.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2026-120446](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2026-120446) is a high-severity authentication bypass in madong-admin-saas through version 5.1.4, caused by a middleware key mismatch in the platform tenant management API. Unauthenticated remote attackers can access tenant and subscription-plan endpoints to list, create, modify, disable, or delete tenants and bind plans.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 4th of November 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2026-120446 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers target `/platformapi/tenant/account` to access the tenant management API without authentication. This access may expose tenant data and enable unauthorized tenant or subscription-plan management.

## Timeline

- 2026-11-02: CVE Published. CVE-2026-120446 is published to NVD.
- 2026-11-04: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2026-120446 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-11-04: First exploitation attempt seen by CrowdSec

## References

- https://github.com/madong-code/madong-admin-saas/blob/v5.1.4/config/middleware.php
- https://github.com/madong-code/madong-admin-saas/issues/2
- https://github.com/madong-code/madong-admin-saas/blob/v5.1.4/app/platform/controller/tenant/AccountController.php#L26
- https://github.com/madong-code/madong-admin-saas/commit/2a199a1523ed749c94b876bc2ae5fedf252b2e39
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/madong-admin-saas-through-5.1.4-missing-authentication-via-platform-tenant-management-api
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-120446.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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