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title: "CVE-2026-61564: AVideo - Command Injection"
description: "AVideo prior to 8.1.0 contains a command injection caused by unescaped interpolation of request parameters into PHP string literals in install/checkConfiguration.php, letting unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary PHP code as the web-server user, exploit requires absence of videos/configuration.php file."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-61564/
---

# CVE-2026-61564 AVideo - Command Injection

AVideo prior to 8.1.0 contains a command injection caused by unescaped interpolation of request parameters into PHP string literals in install/checkConfiguration.php, letting unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary PHP code as the web-server user, exploit requires absence of videos/configuration.php file.

CVSS base score 10.0 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61564)

## Details

Type

Command Injection

Impact

Remote Code Execution, File System Read, File System Write, SQL Injection

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

28 October 2026

Updated

29 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-94](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to version 8.1.0 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61564](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61564)
- [https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/commit/0faaddebd11c087885d25a7e0513745465cad411](https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/commit/0faaddebd11c087885d25a7e0513745465cad411)
- [https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/releases/tag/v8.1.0](https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/releases/tag/v8.1.0)
- [https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/security/advisories/GHSA-xrj3-cqm8-r992](https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo-Encoder/security/advisories/GHSA-xrj3-cqm8-r992)

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- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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