🛡️ CVE-2026-44961

🟢 CVSS 0.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 NVD
0.0
CVSS Score
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Description

The XML‑RPC API addUser method has a validation bypass introduced in the fix for CVE‑2025‑55129. As a result, API users could create usernames that enabled impersonation or stored XSS attacks. Proper validation has been added where it was missing.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-44961 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2026-44961 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 23 June 2026 and last revised on 25 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

hackerone.com

Details

Severity NONE
CVSS Score 0.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-23
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-25
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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