CVE•Published 2026-10-12•Modified 2026-10-16•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-44828

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

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EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 73% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-538Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

Description

Qexo is an open source online editor for static blogs. From 4.0.0 until 4.2.0, Qexo exposes /api/init_step/ through init_step_api without authentication, authorization, or a setup-completion guard. An unauthenticated requester with a valid CSRF token obtained from a public page can submit the first initialization step and reset the INIT setting, causing the instance to re-enter the setup flow. The setup response and /init/ page can expose stored PROVIDER configuration, including service credentials, in frontend content. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.0.

Timeline

Published 2026-10-12

Modified 2026-10-16

External references

NVD MITRE GitHub PoC VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

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vuln:CVE-2026-44828

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-44828

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Censys

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