Answer in brief
CVE-2026-48243 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability in Open ISES Tickets < 3.44.2 Hardcoded WhitePages API Key in wp1.php. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Open ISES/Tickets (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.9. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Open ISES/Tickets (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Open ISES/Ticketsgeneric | >=0 <3.44.2 | 3.44.2 |
Published upstream
May 21, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 8, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Nov 8, 2026
Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 embeds a hardcoded WhitePages reverse-phone API key in wp1.php that is committed to the public source repository. Any actor with read access to the source tree can extract the key and use it to make third-party API calls billed to or rate-limited against the original owner's WhitePages account.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.