Atlassian Questions For Confluence App Hard-coded Credentials Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-07-29
Federal due date
2022-08-19
Vendor
Atlassian
Product
Confluence
EPSS
100.0th percentile (score 0.943, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26138

CISA short description

Atlassian Questions For Confluence App has hard-coded credentials, exposing the username and password in plaintext. A remote unauthenticated attacker can use these credentials to log into Confluence and access all content accessible to users in the confluence-users group.

Required action

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EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.