openises Tickets up to 3.44.1 Google Maps API settings.inc.php hard-coded credentials

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. This impacts an unknown function of the file settings.inc.php of the component Google Maps API. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-48244. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in openises Tickets up to 3.44.1. This issue affects an unknown code of the file settings.inc.php of the component Google Maps API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Open ISES Tickets before 3.44.2 embeds a hardcoded Google Maps API key in settings.inc.php that is committed to the public source repository. The key can be extracted by anyone with read access to the source and used to make Google Maps Platform requests billed against the original owner's Google Cloud project.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-48244 since 05/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1110.001 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:settings.inc.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 3.44.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbff is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-31323). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Ticket Tracking Software

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• openises

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• Tickets

Version

• 3.44.0
• 3.44.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/openises/tickets/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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