# CVE-2026-86215: Mstfakts College-Management-System insufficient session expiration in logout handler

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-86215-mstfakts-college-management-system-insufficient-session  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-06. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-86215 · Severity: medium · CVSS 4.3 · Published 2026-09-06

Mstfakts College-Management-System is a web-based application that manages student and lecturer accounts for universities. A flaw in the logout function fails to properly invalidate user sessions, allowing anyone with a saved session cookie—including users of shared computers or attackers who captured a token—to continue accessing protected profile data and account information after the legitimate owner has logged out.

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-86215 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-86215 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-86215?** Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.3, published 6 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Mstfakts College-Management-System Rolling release; version details not available.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-86215?** No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

**How is CVE-2026-86215 attacked?** It is attacked over the network.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-86215?** Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

The vulnerability is insufficient session expiration (CWE-613) in the logout handler (Front-end/server.php, lines 125–129). When a user logs out, the application performs only client-side navigation to login.php via JavaScript, but never destroys the PHP session or expires the PHPSESSID cookie. An attacker who possesses a valid session identifier can reuse it to access protected pages, retrieve sensitive profile data (email, GPA, student ID, academic information), and execute authenticated actions. The attack is network-accessible and requires no privileges, but does require that an attacker either has physical access to a shared workstation or previously captured a session cookie. No server-side fixes are publicly available; the project maintainers have not responded to the initial report.

## Affected products

- Mstfakts College-Management-System Rolling release; version details not available

## Timeline

- 2026-07-20: disclosed: Vulnerability reported via GitHub issue #7
- 2026-09-06: advisory: CVE-2026-86215 published on NVD

## References

- [https://github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/](https://github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/)
- [https://github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/issues/7](https://github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/issues/7)